Mental Health in Education

were agreed that "prevention" inevitably required co-operation, and that one of the tasks today was to increase communication between the specialisms, and to provide an acceptable translation for professional jargon. In each conference, speakers highlighted the aim of this mental health work, which was not prevention or cure, but rather the removal of factors which impeded growth physical, emotional and intellectual. No one aspect of growth could be considered in isolation; from the psychiatrist's point of view, "treatment must be directed to several areas of his (the child's) personality". Organisations and individuals representing different aspects of the child's life needed to be involved in his care and educa-