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CHILD GUIDANCE CLINIC
Dr. G. Crosse, Consultant Psychiatrist for the Croydon Child
Guidance Clinic, reports that during the year the investigation
of problem children was given a new dimension by the opening of
the short stay psychiatric unit at Queen Mary's Hospital last
April. The Borough Child Guidance team are represented on the
Unit staff and are able to arrange admissions direct from the
clinic. Many children have been admitted and we have had some
good clinical results. Occasionally the Unit has been able to
absorb even child psychotics.
The Child Guidance sessions at the New Addington Infant
Welfare Centre continues to thrive and Dr. Marjorie Le Vay,
senior registrar, has been able to deepen relations with the
other agencies in this relatively isolated area.
The tutorial class for maladjusted children under Mr. Doe
has surmounted the initial difficulties and is now providing an
excellent service for children whose emotional problems are complicated
by education and social factors. A close contact between
the clinic and this class has enabled psychotherapeutic
efforts and remedial activity to proceed hand in hand.