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The term “latency” refers to a specific potential found in children age six to twelve in the area of personality adjustment. Specifically, this is the ability to achieve a state of calm, educability, and pliability, using an age-appropriate organization of defenses. This state of “latency” is not always attained in children in this age group. Social and cultural influences determine the degree to which the available mechanisms are put to work producing states of latency.
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Sarnoff, C.A. (1980). Latency-Age Children. In: Sholevar, G.P., Benson, R.M., Blinder, B.J. (eds) Emotional Disorders in Children and Adolescents. Child Behavior and Development. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-6684-3_18
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