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Ment Hyg, 1969
Descriptors: Child Development, Emotional Disturbances, Federal Programs, Handicapped Children
Ranzoni, Patricia Smith – 1986
A child development team in a children's services unit of a mental health center should: (1) formulate a broad philosophy of treatment for young child clients; (2) evaluate treatment approaches to determine the extent to which they facilitate or conflict with that philosophy; (3) assess inservice training needs to ensure competency-based service…
Descriptors: Child Advocacy, Child Development, Child Development Specialists, Counselor Role
Download full textNewcomb, Paul; Cousert, David – 1996
This paper introduces a framework for conceptualizing a system of care for children and youth with severe emotional or behavioral disorders built on a child development perspective. The approach focuses on developmental transitions which all children and youth experience. Such transitions include entry into school, negotiating the challenges…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior Disorders, Child Development, Children
Katz-Leavy, Judy; Bornemann, Thomas; Burns, Barbara J.; Friedman, Robert; Jenson, Peter; Osher, Trina – 2000
This brief paper on a topical discussion session held at a conference on children's mental health about implications of the 1999 report, "Mental Health: A Report of the Surgeon General," for children. The discussion focuses primarily on the chapter in the report specifically about children and mental health with comments by four individuals who…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Child Development, Children, Delivery Systems
Peer reviewedGregory, Shawan D. P.; Phillips, Frederick B. – Child Welfare, 1997
Examines Progressive Life Center's (PLC) Therapeutic Foster Care program and its incorporation of NTU psychotherapy into its program model. Describes how PLC strives to improve the delivery of mental health services through culturally competent therapeutic techniques for African Americans, including seriously emotionally disturbed children. (MOK)
Descriptors: Blacks, Child Development, Child Welfare, Cultural Awareness
Clarizio, Harvey F. – 1969
Contained in the text are four readings on mental health and the schools, five on childrens' problems in developing, five on social and emotional aspects of educational adjustment, five on cognitive development and mental health, and five on group aspects of classroom functioning. Six articles concern students with special needs, five discuss…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Adolescents, Behavior Problems, Child Development
Foundation for Child Mental Welfare, Inc., New York, NY. – 1969
Introduced by extensive background and recommendations, the text discusses the problems of the impact of contemporary American society on the mental health of children and youth and on family life. Information is presented on poverty and mental health, on the mental health problems of children of minority groups, on emotionally disturbed children…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Child Development, Disadvantaged Youth, Economically Disadvantaged
SEGAL, JULIUS – 1965
NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH ACTIVITIES REPRESENTING EIGHT MAJOR PROGRAMS OF THE INSTITUTE ARE DESCRIBED IN TERMS OF MEETING THE NEEDS OF NORMAL CHILDREN IN NORMAL ENVIRONMENTS, PROVIDING EARLY TREATMENT OF MENTAL AND EMOTIONAL DISORDERS IN CHILDHOOD, AND DEVELOPING TREATMENT AND REHABILITATION PROGRAMS FOR SEVERELY DISTURBED CHILDREN.…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Child Care, Child Development, Children
CLARK, DONALD H., ED.; LESSER, GERALD S., ED. – 1965
A COLLECTION OF 26 READINGS ON RESEARCH IN EMOTIONAL DISTURBANCE AND SCHOOL LEARNING, THIS PAPERBACK BOOK PRESENTS FOUR OR FIVE STUDIES OF DIFFERING TYPES FROM VARIOUS SOURCES ON EACH TOPIC TREATED. THE TOPICS INCLUDE A DEFINITION OF EMOTIONAL DISTURBANCE AND PROBLEMS, (2) ANTECEDENTS OF TROUBLE, (3) CASE HISTORIES OF TROUBLED CHILDREN, (4)…
Descriptors: Achievement, Adolescents, Aggression, Autism
