scholarly journals THE RÔLE OF THE CHILD GUIDANCE CLINIC IN THE MENTAL HYGIENE MOVEMENT

1926 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ralph P. Truitt
Keyword(s):  
Mental Hygiene ◽  
Child Guidance Clinic ◽  
Guidance Clinic ◽  
Child Guidance

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.

Child Guidance Clinic

BMJ ◽  
1954 ◽  
Vol 2 (4887) ◽  
pp. 592-593
Author(s):  
J. G. Howells
Keyword(s):  
Child Guidance Clinic ◽  
Guidance Clinic ◽  
Child Guidance

News and Announcements

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1976 ◽  
Vol 57 (3) ◽  
pp. 436-438
Keyword(s):  
Family Therapy ◽  
Annual Conference ◽  
Child Guidance Clinic ◽  
Family Therapy Training ◽  
Guidance Clinic ◽  
Child Guidance ◽  
The Family ◽  
Center Boulevard ◽  
Civic Center ◽  
Hilton Hotel

WHO WORKS FOR CHILDREN: THE REALITIES: 11th Annual Conference sponsored by the Association for the Care of Children in Hospitals, Hilton Hotel, Denver, Colorado, March 24 to 27. Preregistration is required. For information write: Ms. Lynn Moulthrop, ACCH Colorado Affiliate, P.O. Box 613, Aurora, Colorado 80010 PSYCHOSOMATIC MEDICINE AND FAMILY THERAPY: Symposium sponsored by the Family Therapy Training Center, Philadelphia Child Guidance, Clinic, May 1 and 2. Fee $100. For information write: Ms. Helene Davis, Philadelphia Child Guidance Clinic, 34th St. & Civic Center Boulevard, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104.

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