An Approach to Community Mental Health
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a relevance extending into more general fields. The headings include?A Community Approach to Preventive Psychiatry, The Psychology of Pregnancy, Early Mother-Child Relationships, and Mental Health Aspects of Family Life. Building on a concept from an earlier work (Emotional Problems of Early Childhood, p. 156) he pays attention to pathogenic forces in the community, together with the traditional means by which people have found reparative influences which help adaptation to life problems. He refers to the importance of "key people" who exert a potent effect upon the mental health of a number of other individuals, and to "crisis events" which are usually associated with some sudden change in the social or personal background of an individual, such as separation from members of the family, bereavement, or stages in personal development, including pregnancy, childbirth, physical illnesses and operations, change of employment and moving into a new neighbourhood. Individuals and families react to such crises in different ways, and a serious disturbance on one occasion is likely to be repeated in a new crisis. The key people who give support and guidance include nurses, doctors, clergymen and policemen, and he describes them as "Care-
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