| Notes: | Prepared by Mary B. Sayles of the staff of the Joint Committee, the narratives having been taken from the case records of the Bureau of Children's Guidance, conducted by the New York School of Social Work in its administration of one division of the Commonwealth Fund Program for the Prevention of Delinquency. cf. Pref.
"Published April, 1924. Second printing, March, 1927."
|
|---|
| Summary: | "These narratives of three children who presented problems of conduct are published in order to give some indication of the resources which modern science offers for the assistance of those who seek to understand such troubled young lives and to guide them into the channels of normal social growth. Increasing numbers of social workers, school teachers, probation officers, public health nurses and parents are already aware that psychiatry affords a new approach to the handling of children who are delinquent, or maladjusted, or unhappy. Such readers may be interested to follow in detail the carefully planned steps taken in these cases. Psychiatrists and psychiatric social workers, who would naturally prefer a more technical presentation of the material, will find nothing unusual in these examples of childhood difficulties and handicaps, in the methods employed to deal with them, or in the results of the work"--Introduction. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2015 APA, all rights reserved).
|
|---|
