Stella Chess

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Stella Chess was an American child psychiatrist who taught at New York University . With her husband, Alexander Thomas, she undertook research into whether the temperaments of children are innate or are dependent on their nurturing. She also conducted studies on the potential links between rubella during pregnancy and autism in the child.

Published Works

• Roundtable: What Is Temperament? Four Approaches
• Autism in children with congenital rubella
• Follow-up report on autism in congenital rubella
• The Origin of Personality
• Behavioral consequences of congenital rubella
• Infant bonding: Mystique and reality.
• A BEHAVIOURAL STUDY OF SCHIZOPHRENIC CHILDREN
• Temperamental Individuality from Childhood to Adolescence
• Clinical differentiation among children with initial language complaints
• AN ANALYSIS OF THE LANGUAGE OF FOURTEEN SCHIZOPHRENIC CHILDREN
• Temperament and the Concept of Goodness of Fit
• Depression in Childhood and Adolescence
• IMPLICATIONS OF A LONGITUDINAL STUDY OF CHILD DEVELOPMENT FOR CHILD PSYCHIATRY
• Characteristics of the individual child's behavioral responses to the environment.
• INTERACTION OF TEMPERAMENT AND ENVIRONMENT IN THE PRODUCTION OF BEHAVIORAL DISTURBANCES IN CHILDREN
• BEHAVIOR DEVIATIONS IN MENTALLY RETARDED CHILDREN
• Behavioral individuality in early childhood.
• A longitudinal study of primary reaction patterns in children
• Temperament and Behavior Disorders in Mentally Retarded Children
• DISTORTIONS IN DEVELOPMENTAL REPORTING MADE BY PARENTS OF BEHAVIORALLY DISTURBED CHILDREN
• Early Parental Attitudes, Divorce and Separation, and Young Adult Outcome: Findings of a Longitudinal Study
• The influence of nursery school on social interactions.
• Temperament of asthmatic children
• Principles and Practice of Child Psychiatry
• Psychiatric treatment of the mentally retarded child with behavior problems.
• INDIVIDUALITY IN RESPONSES OF CHILDREN TO SIMILAR ENVIRONMENTAL SITUATIONS
• Editorial: Mai de mère.
• The importance of cultural evaluation in psychiatric diagnosis and treatment
• Do Deaf Children Have a Typical Personality?
• "Issues of temperament and attachment": Reply.
• Editorial: Change of journal scope and title
• BEHAVIOR PROBLEMS REVISITED
• Developmental Theory Revisited: Findings of Longitudinal Study
• Impulsivity in Rubella Deaf Children: A Longitudinal Study
• Temperament and the Parent-Child Interaction
• The Role of Temperament in the Contributions of Individuals to Their Development
• The Handicapped Child and His Family: Consonance and Dissonance: With Special Reference to Deaf Children
• A psychiatric unit in a general hospital pediatric clinic.
• The Impact of Children's Physical Handicaps on Marital Quality and Family Interaction
• Evolution of Behavior Disorder in a Group of Mentally Retarded Children
• The Plasticity of Human Development: Alternative Pathways
• Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Come of Age: A Fifty Year Perspective
• Developmental language disability as a factor in personality distortion in childhood.
• Individuality in children, its importance to the pediatrician
• Sexual attitudes and behavior patterns in a middle-class adolescent population.
• Neurologic Damage and Behavior Disorder in Rubella Children
• Principles and Practice of Child Psychiatry
• Our memorial to Leo Kanner
• Factors influencing the adaptations of organically handicapped children.
• A TRAINING PROGRAM IN SCHOOL PSYCHIATRY
• METHODOLOGY OF A STUDY OF ADAPTIVE FUNCTIONS OF THE PRESCHOOL CHILD
• Neurological dysfunction and childhood behavioral pathology
• Disadvatages of "The disadvataged child."
• Disorders of Habit
• Selective Bias in Educational Mainstreaming of Deaf, Intellectually Normal Adolescents
• Origins and Evolution of Behavior Disorders
• Physically Handicapped Children
• Early childhood development and its implications for analytic theory and practice
• The importance of nonmotivational behavior patterns in psychiatric diagnosis and treatment
• Introduction
• Psychodynamics of child delinquency: Round table, 1952.
• Disorders of Biological Functions
• Introduction
• Genesis and Etiology
• Psychology of pre-adolescent children in war time: IV. War ideologies of children.
• THE MEANING OF CLASSIFICATION
• WILD CHILD
• Marked Anxiety in Children
• Selectivity of Treatment Modalities
• Temperament and Behavior Disorders in Children
• The Empty Fortress: Infantile Autism and the Birth of the Self
• A Historical Overview
• Psychophysiological Disorders
• Anxiety Disorders
• Childhood Psychoses
• Mental Retardation
• Learning Disabilities
• Disorders of Language Development
• Organic Brain Syndromes
• Hyperkinesis and Attentional Deficiencies
• Disorders of Habit
• Physically Handicapped Children
• Normal Child Development
• Gifted Children
• Normal and Pathological Behavior in Adolescence
• Treatment
• Prognosis and Prevention
• Patterns of Delivery of Services
• Children and the Law
• Theories of Child Development
• Genesis and Etiology
• Presenting Symptoms
• Assessment
• Issues in Classification
• Adjustment Reactions
• The Conception, Birth, and Childhood of a Behavioral Research The New York Longitudinal Study
• Factors Affecting the Development and Evaluation of Handicapped Children
• A Historical Overview
• Psychophysiological Disorders
• Childhood Neuroses
• Childhood Psychoses
• Mental Retardation
• Learning Disabilities
• Disorders of Language Development
• Organic Brain Syndromes
• Hyperkinesis and Attentional Deficiencies
• Normal Child Development
• Gifted Children
• Normal and Pathological Behavior in Adolescence
• Treatment
• Prognosis and Prevention
• Patterns of Delivery of Services
• Children and the Law
• Theories of Child Development
• Presenting Symptoms
• Assessment
• Issues in Classification
• Adjustment Reactions
• Disorders of Biological Functions
• Childhood psychopathologies: The search for differentiation
• Springing the Tradition Trap continued
• Book review: Infantile autistic behavior and experience?A new clinical picture by Joseph J. G. Prick
• Family climate in relation to character structure
• Hyperactive children: A rational approach to medication
• Lauretta Bender 1899–1987
• Career training in child psychiatry
• Cognitive Perceptual Motor Dysfunction
• The Roots of Individuality
• THE UNUSUAL CHILD
• Annual Progress in Child Development, 1984
• Difficult temperament: Toward an integration of parental, clinical and research perspectives
• General considerations.
• Issues in longitudinal studies.
• Data collection.
• Subjects and procedures for data treatment.
• Problems of reliability and validity.
• Results.
• Theoretical implications.
• Practical implications.
• Review of Heal the hurt child.
• Review of The roots of individuality.
• Review of Diminished people: Problems and care of the mentally retarded.
• Desegregation: Its implications for orthopsychiatry: Round table, 1955: Application of a desegregation principle to the treatment of children.
• A View of Lauretta Bender, 1899–1987
• Childhood Psychopathology and Development
• Developmental Neuropsychiatry
• Siblings: Love, Envy and Understanding
• WISDOM FROM TEACHERS
• GROUP THERAPY WITH NEGRO MOTHERS
• PSYCHIATRIC RESEARCH
• Epidemiological Approaches in Child Psychiatry
• Lauretta Bender, M.D., 1899-1987
• Psychosocial Development and Human Variance
• Behavioral Individuality in Early Childhood
• Daughters: From Infancy to Independence
• Annual Progress in Child Psychiatry and Child Development
• Behavioral Individuality in Early Childhood
• Your Child Is a Person
• Annual Progress in Child Psychiatry and Child Development

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Schools

Smith College

Private women's liberal arts college in Massachusetts

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New York Medical College

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New York University

Private research university in New York City

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