Psychiatric Consultation in a Family Agency: A Study of Six Cases in Which Consultation Was Used at the Catholic Charities Family Division Agency, Bay Shore, New York, Sept. 1959 - Sept. 1960
Abstract
One of the penalties of living in an age of tension is the possession of frayed nerves and a confused outlook. The repeated experience of war in our time, constant apprehension of war with atonic weapons more dreadful than before, and a barrage of disturbing propaganda and psychological warfare on the international front, has taken a heavy toll of our mental peace and health. Rapid urbanization, density of population, and greater freedom of action have opened up new opportunities for personal advancement and have served to eliminate many old inhibitions, which formerly plagued people and made then submissive to ways of life which they secretly recognized as narrow, and even unjust. But these same factors have also destroyed patterns of family life and community cooperation which gives the individual a sense of security and protected him in fulfilling his duties. As a result, a rather wholesale bewilderment has gripped large sectors of society which have not learned to cope with their new responsibilities, or to bring their sense of rights and duties into working harmony.One need not to look far to discover tragic evidences of mental and moral breakdown. The alarming prevalence of divorce, alcoholism, unhappy homes, children brought up in an atmosphere of dissension or lack of concern, the Increase of juvenile deliquency and crime, are all indicative of mental sickness and disorder affecting the community as well as the individual.
Subject Area
Individual & family studies|Psychology|Mental health
Recommended Citation
Kowalchik, Joseph John, "Psychiatric Consultation in a Family Agency: A Study of Six Cases in Which Consultation Was Used at the Catholic Charities Family Division Agency, Bay Shore, New York, Sept. 1959 - Sept. 1960" (1961). ETD Collection for Fordham University. AAI31050568.
https://research.library.fordham.edu/dissertations/AAI31050568
