This book, directed primarily to day-care and nursery-school teachers, consists of a compilation of papers originally published or presented at workshops in the greater Cleveland area between 1966 and 1984. Most of the chapters are written by either Erna or Robert Furman, with a few others by their colleagues. All are designed to teach, in jargon-free ways, about the dynamic understanding of a range of common problems arising in preschool programs. The authors succeed admirably in their objective.

The book is divided into two parts. The chapters in the first part concern normative developmental issues, for example "Separation on Entry to Nursery School," "Discipline," "The Father-Child Relationship." Those in Part II address various sorts of disturbances in development, such as language problems, immature levels of