Emotionally Disturbed Children in an Interim Normal Child Caring Institution: A Study of Seven Children in a Therapeutic Group Living Unit at the Cardinal Mccloskey School and Home, White Plains, New York, August 1963 to January 1965
Abstract
The child as a person having rights of his own is undoubtedly one of the marks of this century. The emphasis on the whole child has done much to better the lot of children. Marked community interest is focused on the problems of emotionally disturbed children. The passage of state and federal sponsored legislation for the establishment of special clinics and classes for the emotionally disturbed child as well as community mental health associations - all attest to a wide interest in this problem. This concern has carried over to the professional and interested lay community. Their attention has been translated into action via the changing programs of many of our child care institutions. Numerous congregate agencies or orphanages have seen their usefulness and purpose become obsolete and thus have taken on new services. In a search for a fresh raison d’etre, they have changed their function to enable them to provide service to children with various degrees of emotional problems who are in need of institutional placement where they can receive skilled professional help. Their programs have become treatment-oriented. Many children acquire attention in a setting analogous in some way to a hospital - a center offering treatment services in a milieu away from home.
Subject Area
Mental health|Social work
Recommended Citation
Kane, Kathleen Edna, "Emotionally Disturbed Children in an Interim Normal Child Caring Institution: A Study of Seven Children in a Therapeutic Group Living Unit at the Cardinal Mccloskey School and Home, White Plains, New York, August 1963 to January 1965" (1965). ETD Collection for Fordham University. AAI30308741.
https://research.library.fordham.edu/dissertations/AAI30308741
