DISTURBED CHILDREN
Teachers Urge Treatment (N.Z. Press Association) ' WELLINGTON, May 12. Residential schools for emo-tionally-disturbed children are advocated in a report presented today to the Hutt Valley regional conference of the Post-Primary Teachers” Association. “Many post-primary teachers are deeply concerned with the problem of children with serious emotional disturbances in our post-primary schools,” the report said. “These emotionally-disturb-ed people not only fail to develop their potential as human beings and members of society but many eventually become a liability on society by entering mental hospitals, gaols and borstals. “With timely recognition of their difficulties, suitable handling and therapy many of these costly failures could have become normally adjusted people. "It is hoped that urgent steps will be taken to have trained psychologists on the staffs of primary and intermediate schools so that disturbed attitudes can be detected and treated long before they hatfe a chance to establish themselves and reach the magnitude they do at the post-primary level.”
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30129, 13 May 1963, Page 10
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