STUDY OF CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY

Press, Volume XCI, Issue 27670, 28 May 1955, Page 2

STUDY OF CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY

MISS Y. MALCOLM’S VISIT TO U.S. Miss Yvonne Malcolm, of Christchurch, who has been studying clinical psychology in the United States under a Fblbright travel grant, has received, through the Institute of International Education, a further State grant to c nable her to visit the_ Menninger Foundation, Kansas, and to attend a short summer session at the Colorado State College of- Education next month. The session is being conducted by Dr. Paul McKee, who is director of elementary education at the college and a nationally recognised expert on the teaching of reading. His name is now well known to many teachers in the Canterbury Education Board’s district, as during the last few years his reading books have been used in standards I and 11. The greater part of Miss Malcolm’s time in St. Louis has been spent studying at the Washington University Child Guidance Clinic. This clinic, which diagnoses and treats emotionally-disturbed children, is also a centre for research and training. Although a small clinic, it is one of the few in the United States that can meet the requirements for memberdip in the American Association of Psychiatric Clinics for Children. Miss Malcolm has also spent some time looking into the education of mentally-retarded children. She recently spent a week at the University , of Illinois, at the Institute for Research on Exceptional Children, which is under the directior of Dr. Samuel Kirk. After her visit to Colorado. Miss Malcolm plans to go to California, travel across the south of the United States to New York, and leave for Britain at the end of July.