Maladjusted Children
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his extensive experience of maladjusted children. There is just one further point which merits comment. In his preface Dr. Burns states that modern psychology and its application in "Child Guidance" meets with less acceptance and understanding among Catholics than others. I am sure, therefore, that he would also wish his readers to know that a Catholic nun, the late Sister Marie Hilda of Glasgow, was one of the pioneers of the Child Guidance movement in this country. The "tough" attitude is not by any means peculiar to certain Catholics, as was well demonstrated in an article in a leading daily paper, which attacked the report on Maladjusted Children by a Ministerial Committee, published at the end of 1955. It is to be hoped that Dr. Burns' book will help to modify that attitude, wherever it still
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