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Playing with fire
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ISBN: 9781629484747 1629484741 9781629484716 1629484717 Year: 2013 Publisher: Hauppauge, New York

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Rural and urban residents accustomed to seeing fire engines racing with sirens wailing and lights flashing are unaware of the problem of juvenile-set fires. Firesetting behaviors among children and adolescents are serious and have associated with it, serious individual and societal costs. Every year, several thousand children and adolescents aged 14 years and younger in the United States alone are injured or killed. Firesetting, pyromania and arson are topics that have existed in the literature since Sigmund Freud explained firesetting through his psychoanalytic model. Helen Yarnell's studies

Handbook on firesetting in children and youth
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ISBN: 1281514489 9786611514488 0080532780 0124177611 9780124177611 9780080532783 9781281514486 Year: 2002 Publisher: San Diego : Academic Press,

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This text reference provides state-of-the-art information on juvenile firesetters and reviews the current research on youthful firesetters and arsonists. The work illustrates methods of fire scene investigation and assessment relating to child-parent and family factors. This information is then used to prescribe interventions with the individual along with community-wide programs. The work also provides current information on fire safety education and curricula, with explicit training materials. Finally, the book addresses the need for residential treatment centers and training schools on meth

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