WHO and Mental Health—1949-1961

The Future of Mental Health Education in England and Wales *Summary of address given at a Specialist Meeting of the National Association for Mental Health in connection with the International Congress on Mental Health, August 20th, 1948.

I speak as one who has been engaged in the educational field in respect of mental health for the last twenty-five years. When my interest in this subject started, early in the 'twenties, it was certainly a practically unknown field, and those of us who have worked in it will realize that we have had not only to try to build up something but to break down something?something which is still not c...

Childhood multiple sclerosis with psychotic manifestations.

Mental symptoms such as disturbances of mood, affect, and intellectual function in multiple sclerosis are well known. Although actual psychotic manifestations are rare, there are several reports in the literature of patients with multiple sclerosis who, in the course of their disease or preceding it, developed psychotic symptoms (Howes, 1927; Arbuse, 1938; Langworthy, Kolb, and Androp, 1941; Te...

Training and Scope of the Psychiatric Social Worker in Relation to Adults. II

are to discuss what is and what ought to be, it will be easier to start with a brief outline of training as it exists, and then to indicate by a description of the scope of the work, the principles and aims which should shape that training. The concept of psychiatric social work was accepted from the United States and introduced into this country in 1929. The Mental Health Course was then found...

The Mental Health Aspect of Public Health

A Challenge to Social Work Education

Lecturer in Mental Health, School of Economics; Chairman, Association of Psychiatric Social Workers, 1958-60 Of all the groups of untrained social workers in the statutory services, the mental welfare officers have been the most persistent their demand for training. The reasons why their cry went Unheard by the Ministry of Health and the local authorities is now Part of history?too recent to un...