NAUGHTY CHILDREN

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6866, 22 March 1929, Page 11

NAUGHTY CHILDREN

EXPERIMENT IN LONDON. CLINIC TO BE ESTABLISHED. London children who are difficult to manage will soon be attending a guidance clinic Tun on American lines. The staff, already appointed, is now in the TJ.S.A. studying the American clinics, and a number of the Child Guidance Council have previously paid a visit. Por three years the cost of the clinic will be borne by the Commonwealth Puud of New York, and at the end of that period the L.C.C. will decide from tho 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 begun to behave in a difficult way. The case was often very complex and skill was required to find out the cause of some of tho child’s actions. Tho intention was that the cjinic should bo available for London elementary school children, and the L.C.C. had agreed to recognise it and send children -there during school hours. Dr. William Moody has resigned his post as deputy medical superintendent of the Maudsley Mental Hospital to become principal, and thero will also be on the staff a lady doctor, two psychologists, and several social workers, the clinic will be opened in about five months.