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(2) Preventive mental health is a proper field for health education measures :
(a) Group activities at mothercraft sessions should include the full discussion of such
problems; evening sessions are desirable at not too infrequent intervals in order to
afford both parents an opportunity to attend.
(b) Reading matter, film strips and films may be useful media for the propagation
of the principles of preventive mental health and there is scope for the preparation
of suitable material.
Mass approach methods, such as periodic bulletins, etc., merit further study before
the value of their inclusion in a programme of preventive mental health can be properly
assessed. Such measures can, in any case, be considered only as subsidiary to methods
of individual and personal approach which are essential in the field of preventive mental
health.
The Study Group wish to record their appreciation to Dr. W. Warren, Brixton
Child Guidance Unit, Dr. A. Bolton (lately of that Unit) and Mrs. Kahn Freund,
psychiatric social worker, Woodberry Down Child Guidance Unit, who attended
some of the meetings of the Group.
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