21st Child Guidance Inter-Clinic Conference

Adolescence: 20th Child Guidance Inter-Clinic Conference

Truancy—Or School Phobia?

The 1959 Inter-Clinic Conference (which is restricted to Child Guidance Clinic personnel) had as its topic the problems of Truancy and School Phobia. In addition to its considerable professional value to the participants, this Conference revealed a number of other important aspects of the problem. It showed that this topic had considerable "news value" to the lay public : it emphasised how clos...

Birmingham Confers on Psychotic Children

LAST October the Birmingham Association for Mental Health held a one-d; Conference on "The Psychotic Child" which met with such an enthusiaf response that it had to move its meeting place to the larger hall at the Univers1' which was packed with over 600 people. The current keen interest in the subF itself and the imposing names on the programme combined to attract staff ff? child guidance clin...

Psycho-Therapy in a Child Guidance Clinic

What exactly do you do as a Psycho-therapist in a Child Guidance Clinic? How would you define your function and are there special factors operating in Child Guidance Clinic treatment? Is there a particular quality in the relationship between therapist and child, and are there limitations peculiar to therapy in the Child Guidance Clinic? These are questions we are increasingly being asked as the...

The Child Guidance Clinic and Other Agencies

' PHE importance of good liaison between the Child Guidance Clinic and paediatrician is obvious; and clearly justifies a special comment m Mental Health, but there are many ?ther disciplines with whom good contact is equally as important; and many agencies with whom the clinic ^ust be prepared to work in close ^Elaboration if child and family are 0 be adequately helped. For it is essential to r...