THE MENTAL HEALTH CENTRE AND THE CHILD GUIDANCE CLINIC Burnaby, British Columbia

1958 ◽  
Vol 9 (7) ◽  
pp. 37-43
Author(s):  
F. E. McNair ◽  
U. P. Byrne
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
British Columbia ◽  
Health Centre ◽  
Child Guidance Clinic ◽  
Guidance Clinic ◽  
Child Guidance ◽  
Mental Health Centre

Overrepresentation of Adopted Children Attending a Children's Mental Health Centre

1986 ◽  
Vol 31 (6) ◽  
pp. 526-531 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laurence Jerome
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Retrospective Analysis ◽  
Clinical Experience ◽  
Health Centre ◽  
Children’S Mental Health ◽  
Annual Incidence ◽  
Children's Mental Health ◽  
Adopted Children ◽  
Child Guidance ◽  
Mental Health Centre

A retrospective analysis was made of case records of children attending a Children's Mental Health Centre during the years 1959 to 1973. Annual comparisons were made between the numbers of adopted, children seen in the province of Ontario and within the clinic setting. The results indicated that over a fifteen year period the adopted children in the clinic were seen with twice the expected annual incidence predicted from the community rates. “So far as it is known, the proportion of successful and unsuccessful adoptions does not seem unsatisfactory. This result is in accordance with clinical experience which does not suggest that an undue proportion of adopted children are referred to child guidance clinics.” Bowlby (1951)

scholarly journals The Determination of the Intellectual Equipment Is Imperative: Mental Hygiene, Problem Children, and the History of the Provincial Child Guidance Clinic of British Columbia, 1932–1958

2019 ◽  
pp. 48-78
Author(s):  
Gerald Thomson
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
Mental Hygiene ◽  
Clinical History ◽  
Child Guidance Clinic ◽  
Social Service Agencies ◽  
Guidance Clinic ◽  
Child Guidance ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
History Of

The founding in 1932 of British Columbia’s provincial Child Guidance Clinic by Dr. A. L. Crease of Essondale Mental Hospital was seen as a medically progressive measure in the preventive work to stem mental ailments in children and prevent future adult mental illness. The clinic’s history and the influence of mental hygiene on early twentieth-century medical, educational, and social service agencies in BC that dealt with so-called “problem children” has received limited scholarly attention. This paper argues that the mental hygiene agenda was cultivated by psychiatrists working at mental asylums, teachers of “subnormal” children, child welfare advocates, and university-trained social workers, all of whom increasingly shaped child-saving policy in British Columbia. However, from its beginnings, the British Columbia provincial Child Guidance Clinic had an unstable clinical history and it was completely reorganized in 1946 and subsequently closed in 1958. The clinic’s history stood in stark contrast to Alberta’s child guidance clinics, which applied a rigid mental hygiene policy of eugenic sterilization until the early 1970s. This significant difference indicates the need for other detailed microhistories of child psychiatry and child guidance clinics across Canada.

PEDIATRICIANS AND A COMMUNITY CHILD GUIDANCE CLINIC

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1965 ◽  
Vol 36 (5) ◽  
pp. 773-776
Author(s):  
Helene Smith Thorpe ◽  
Werner I. Halpern
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Mental Health Care ◽  
Child Mental Health ◽  
Educational Programs ◽  
Child Guidance Clinic ◽  
Psychiatric Consultation ◽  
Private Practices ◽  
Guidance Clinic ◽  
Child Guidance

A personal survey was conducted of fifty-two pediatricians in thirty-two private practices to determine their impressions of psychiatric consultation with a community child guidance clinic. Their comments were correlated with data from Clinic records over a five-year period. Prolonged waiting for initial service and ineffective communication were major problems voiced by pediatricians and confirmed by Clinic records. Improvements in these problems can occur when attention is given to more expeditious intake procedures, to a better use of professional co-ordination, and to improved educational programs in child mental health care.

College Student Volunteers in a Child Guidance Clinic

1969 ◽  
Vol 50 (5) ◽  
pp. 282-286 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joan B. Burnis ◽  
William C. Ackerly
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
College Student ◽  
Child Guidance Clinic ◽  
Mental Health Team ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Health Team ◽  
Guidance Clinic ◽  
Child Guidance ◽  
Student Volunteers

A new approach supplements the services of a traditional mental health team by using volunteers to provide beneficial relationships for deprived children

Pediatricians in Mental Health and Child Guidance Clinics

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1971 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 160-161
Author(s):  
Albert M. Gordon
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Health Clinic ◽  
Mental Health Clinic ◽  
Child Guidance Clinic ◽  
Guidance Clinic ◽  
Child Guidance ◽  
Supervision And Training ◽  
Pediatric Mental Health ◽  
And Training

In reading "Utilization of a Pediatrician in a Mental Health Clinic"1 and "Utilization of a Pediatrician in a Community Child Guidance Clinic,"2 I am genuinely impressed by the reasons for calling a pediatrician to assist in the treatment of mental sickness. Unfortunately, pediatricians are trained to give physical sick and health care and not mental sick and health care.3 Therefore, a community pediatric mental health clinic should provide supervision and training for the pediatrician, as well as liaison with the agencies and organizations with which he is involved.

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