Review of Guiding the normal child

Abstract

Reviews the book, Guiding the normal child by Agatha H. Bowley (1943). The reviewer states that this book which is addressed to parents, teachers, social workers, and physicians contains many practical suggestions for dealing with behavior and adjustment problems of children. Its author, who is a lecturer in the teachers' training college at Dundee, Scotland, has had wide experience with nursery schools and as a psychologist in the Dundee Child Guidance Clinic. Beginning with an account of the child's development during infancy, the treatment carries forward to the end of the adolescent period. According to the reviewer, the volume is exceptionally easy reading and contains numerous short case studies which adds to its interest. It is decidedly not a typical textbook on child psychology, and probably should not be used for this purpose. It would, however, provide excellent supplementary reading in connection with a course in child psychology. It is distinctly a "how". (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)