Emotionally Disturbed Children: A Study of Five Children From Their Own Homes Compared With Five Children From Foster Homes Admitted to a Residential Treatment Center, Children's Village, Dobbs Ferry, New York, During 1957
Abstract
The maladjustment of so many of our youth is one of the most critical problems confronting society today. This problem has become the concern not only of professional persons but informed lay groups as well. Numerous studies undertaken in the fields of social work, psychiatry, socio- logy, medicine and psychology have provided greater understanding of the needs of the emotionally disturbed child and of the services required to meet these needs. These studies have contributed to a greater understanding of some of the causative factors believed to be attributed to these children in conflict.Within recent years, it has become increasingly evident that maladjustment in children can often be traced to early childhood. Thus, the quality of parental care which a child receives in his earliest years is a significant factor in the development of mental health or illness. In speaking of the child-parent relationship, Dr. Zietz has stated:"The child receives his first preview of society within the framework of his immediate family. From birth he is exposed to standards of familial behavior, to authority, to religious and racial loyalties and biases, and to most of the social attitudes with which he will grow. "It is essential, then, that the child in his earliest years be provided with relationships and experiences that will be conducive to a well integrated personality. A child whose needs are met by emotionally mature parents is able to make satisfactory adjustments to life situations with a make satisfactory adjustment minimum of conflict. It is the mother, or mother-substitute upon whom the infant depends for experiences of warmth, security and acceptance. It is the parents who are charged with the responsiblity of meeting the child's physical, emotional, intellectual, and spiritual needs.
Subject Area
Multicultural Education|Mental health|Social work
Recommended Citation
Farrar, Delores L, "Emotionally Disturbed Children: A Study of Five Children From Their Own Homes Compared With Five Children From Foster Homes Admitted to a Residential Treatment Center, Children's Village, Dobbs Ferry, New York, During 1957" (1960). ETD Collection for Fordham University. AAI31050472.
https://research.library.fordham.edu/dissertations/AAI31050472
