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Adolescent Psychiatry/history , Child Guidance Clinics/history , Child Psychiatry/history , Psychiatric Department, Hospital/history , Adolescent , Adolescent Psychiatry/education , Anniversaries and Special Events , Child , Child Guidance Clinics/trends , Child Psychiatry/education , Connecticut , Female , History, 20th Century , History, 21st Century , Humans , Male , Psychiatric Department, Hospital/trendsABSTRACT
The development of child guidance centres began before 1910 with single institutions characterized by various subject areas (medicine, pedagogy, psychology) as well as by the connection of counselling and therapeutic treatments. Since about 1920 it has become customary to call such institutions child guidance centres. A consistent development lead to the fact that in the Child and Adolescent Aid Law of 1990 child guidance centres are called institutions which are capable of handling different problems with a multi-professional staff and various methods, and offering counselling and treatments as required. People seeking advice shall be able to contact child guidance centres directly of their own free will.
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Child Guidance Clinics/trends , Adolescent , Child , Child Behavior Disorders/prevention & control , Child Guidance Clinics/legislation & jurisprudence , Forecasting , Germany , Humans , Patient Care Team/legislation & jurisprudence , Patient Care Team/trendsSubject(s)
Child Behavior Disorders/prevention & control , Child Guidance Clinics/trends , Adolescent , Berlin , Child , Child Behavior Disorders/psychology , Child Behavior Disorders/rehabilitation , Combined Modality Therapy , Germany, West , Health Services Needs and Demand/trends , Humans , Patient Care TeamABSTRACT
This review of the Jamaican Child Guidance Clinic referrals shows the following trends:- 1. Children referred to the clinic show relatively higher percentage of parent/child separation than is the average in Jamaica. 2. Predominantly neurotic disorders were associated with (a) children living with both parents (b) middle-class families and higher intelligence. 3. Anti-social behaviour was associated with parent/child separation particularly in the early formative years (under 5 years) and frequently with a low I.Q. in the range or 70-90, but there was no association between clearcut mental sub-normality and parental background. The tendency was in fact for mentally subnormal children to come as often from the middle-class as lower-class families. Anti-social behaviour was also associated with lower-class background, but even within the middle-class group anti-social behaviour occurred significantly more often among the separated than among the non-separated. 4. We have endeavoured to relate certain clinical data to some social and cultural features peculiar to Jamaica and the West Indies. (Summary)
