NAUGHTY CHILDREN

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 612, 14 March 1929, Page 4

NAUGHTY CHILDREN

EXPERIMENT IN LONDON CLINIC TO BE ESTABLISHED London children who are difficult to manage will soon be attending a guidance clinic run on American lines. The staff, already appointed, is now in the U.S.A. studying the American clinics, and a number of the Chile Guidance Council have previously paid a visit. For three years the cost of the clinic will he home by the Commonwealth Fund of New York, and at the end of that period the L.C.C. will decide from the results obtained if they will take it over. The secretary of the Child Guidance Council stated that the child who was

emotionally upset very often began to behave in a difficult way. The case was ofteii very complex, and skill was required to find out the cause of some of the child’s actions. The intention was that the clinic should be available for London elementary school children, and the L.C.C. had agreel to recognise it and send children there during school hours. Dr. William Moodie has resigned his post as deputy medical superintendent of the Maudsley Mental Hospital I to become principal, and there will i also be on the staff a lady doctor, two | psychologists, and several social | workers. The clinic will be opened in j about five months.