Are child guidance clinics an anachronism?

Treatment for Children

The discipline of child psychiatry is in its adolescence and, like all adolescents, it is searching for an identity. Having pioneered the multi-disciplinary approach to the understanding of emotional disorder the psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers and child psychotherapists who go to make up the teams in child guidance clinics are awaiting the decision of their elders as to where they...

The Maladjusted Child and Child Guidance Clinics

The Report should put fresh heart into the staff of child guidance c'inics as it is the first official document to set out their principles and ^fpport extensions of their work such as have long been advocated by the N-A.M.H. The need for the basic team of child psychiatrist, educational Psychologist and psychiatric social worker with special training for their lunction, is established and the ...

Child Guidance *A paper read before the Society on Wednesday, October 13th, 1937,

some fifteen years, and was originally coined in the United States. It is particularly appropriate, as the word " guidance " stresses the preventive side of the work. Actually, child guidance forms one part of the bigger subject of psychological medicine ; just as pediatrics is the children's department of general medicine, so child guidance is the children's department of psychological medicin...

An exploratory study of some aspects of the dependency relationships of mothers of schizophrenic children with their case workers at a child guidance clinic

Birmingham Confers on Psychotic Children

LAST October the Birmingham Association for Mental Health held a one-d; Conference on "The Psychotic Child" which met with such an enthusiaf response that it had to move its meeting place to the larger hall at the Univers1' which was packed with over 600 people. The current keen interest in the subF itself and the imposing names on the programme combined to attract staff ff? child guidance clin...