Emerging Child

TheEmerging Child presents the background, nature, techniques, and implications of the Therapeutic Nursery Group (TNG). TNG was established in 1956 to provide emotionally and behaviorally disturbed pre-school children with a group play therapy experience under the leadership of a special nursery group-teacher-therapist. The basic rationale of this program was that the early detection and treatment of psychological disturbances serve as a constructive influence on the child's current and subsequent personal and social adaptation.

Phyllis Brusiloff was the principal investigator of a national institute of mental health grant, replicating the program in four New York City day care centers. She also consulted to the Early Childhood Division of North Carolina and lectures across the country for programs in psychology, psychiatry, and early childhood education.

Background and Development of the Hudson Guild's Therapeutic Nursery Program We Find Each Other A Place to Work-A Place to Play The Doll Corner The Doctor Kit The Water Table The Block Corner The Punching Bag Clay The Dart Board Balls Books The Mini-World Case Histories-Atypical Behavior Primitive, Motor-driven, Self-destructive Harry Deprived, Infantile Carmella Depressed, Constricted, Withdrawn Rhoda Sue Infantile, Negative, Oppositional Seth Aggressive, Volitive, Poor Impulse Control Duane Terry Juan Follow-up Contact with Schools