European Committee for Mental Hygiene. Seventh Conference

Mental Hospitals and the Mental Hygiene Movement in the United States

1. The National Committee for Mental Hygiene: Origins and Achievements The mental hygiene movement in America was launched with the founding of the National Committee for Mental Hygiene in the first decade of the present century. The founder was Clifford Beers, a man whose knowledge of mental illness and its attendant problems came entirely out of his own experience as a patient in mental hospi...

Competencies for Entry into the Profession of Dental Hygiene

The American Dental Education Association (ADEA), Section on Dental Hygiene Education, Competency Development Committee drafted the competency statements presented in this document. This committee had representation from both baccalaureate and associate degree dental hygiene programs. It also included representation from dental hygiene, clinical, social and basic sciences, and the American Dent...

20 years of developing European standards. Fieldwork and ongoing dialogue with governments

In the last two decades the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment has been visiting mental hospitals, forensic psychiatric establishments and prison hospitals in all member states of the Council of Europe. Its delegations have paid particular attention to the questions of involuntary placement, compulsory treatment and means of restrai...

Annual conference of representatives of local medical committees.

 Nomination and voting for this election is governed by conference standing order 74.  With the exception of those standing for the ‘seventh seat’, candidates do not have to be a representative of a local medical committee at conference.  Nominations may be made only by representatives of a local medical committee at conference.  A representative may make ONLY ONE nomination.  Elections, i...

The Training of Mental Hygienists 1The obvious medium for the publication of this article on the training of mental hygienists being “MENTAL HYGIENE,” Dr. Fernberger first submitted it to that journal for publication. The medical director of the National Committee for Mental Hygiene and the editor of “MENTAL HYGIENE,” being unable to publish the article in that journal, returned the manuscript to Dr. Fernberger. The editor of the “PSYCHOLOGICAL CLINIC” hastens to give this article publicity, believing that Dr. Fernberger, who is a specialist in experimental psychology, has touched upon a tender spot in the professional equipment and training of psychiatrists, psychologists and educators who are at present engaged in the promotion and practice of mental hygiene. Lightner Witmer, Editor.