Psychological Aspects of Self-Government in the Residential Treatment of the Delinquent Child and Adolescent

Among the schools undertaking the re-education of the delinquent is Red Hill School, Maidstone, Kent, founded by its Principal Otto L. Shaw in 1934. Child Guidance Clinics, Children's Departments of local authorities, hospitals, Juvenile Courts and Probation Officers refer boys to the school who suffer from such emotional and social disorders as:?stealing, aggression, running-away, sexual disturbances, obsessional and anxiety neuroses and enuresis. If the 45 pupils were not almost without exception from homes in which their personalities would have suffered considerable or permanent damage, they would mostly have been treated at a Child Guidance Clinic. There is no fixed period of stay, but the optimum period to consolidate a cure and complete