The Role of the Clinical Psychologist in a Mental Deficiency Hospital

There seems to be also an intellectual aura of pessimism and complacency hanging over Mental Deficiency which is expressed in tolerating and accepting the existing status as almost inevitable and insoluble. Apart from the few exceptions, doctors and psychologists alike show very little effort in re-examining the validity of old concepts in the light of slowly accumulating experimental evidence. They are also slow in the formulation of new concepts and solutions, and there seems to be little adequate driving force towards a change. Fortunately this state of affairs is slowly being overcome, by a recognition of the fact that a mental defective whatever the chronological age, is a child, and as such has the same inalienable rights as possessed by any normal child to those services necessary