Mentally Defective Children With Schizophrenia Characteristics: A Study of Parental History of Six Children Admitted to Psychiatric Division, Kings County Hospital, Brooklyn, New York, 1955-1956
Abstract
The writer, while in student placement at Kings County Hospital , Psychiatric Division, became very much aware of the important effect the parents had on the child's development. Many of the adults who are treated in the various clinics of the hospital can trace their problems back to early childhood. The writer decided to study the parental histories of six mentally retarded children to learn what factors they had in common. Blacker refers to the Wood Report which is the report of the Mental Deficiency Committee of 1929. At that time, some of the authorities in the field felt that the large majority of the children who were classified as feeble-minded came from the lower social strata. There will be exceptions to this, but they are so few as to leave the impression unshaken.
Subject Area
Mental health|Clinical psychology|Social work
Recommended Citation
McManus, Elizabeth Bernadette, "Mentally Defective Children With Schizophrenia Characteristics: A Study of Parental History of Six Children Admitted to Psychiatric Division, Kings County Hospital, Brooklyn, New York, 1955-1956" (1958). ETD Collection for Fordham University. AAI30557651.
https://research.library.fordham.edu/dissertations/AAI30557651
