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In addition to the consultative and psychotherapeutic treatment
services provided by the permanent professional staff, the following
activities should be noted :
(1) Case conferences held at least once weekly confined to staff
members, or opened to include students and/or people referring children,
such as medical officers, head teachers, general practitioners. These reach
decisions, mediate responsibility and facilitate communication.
(2) Co-operative work, with shared responsibility for cases, based
on consultation and case discussions, with health visitors, mental welfare
officers and probation officers.
(3) Establishment of the specialist teacher as an integral member of
the centre staff. She now deals with emotionally disturbed and educationally
retarded children who attend classes at the centre part-time, in addition
to children who are unable to attend normal school in the usual way.
(4) Training through supervised work, child observation and
participation in conferences, etc., of social work students, psychology
students and students from the London University senior course for
teachers of maladjusted children.
(5) Co-ordination and policy planning meetings with the assistant
education officer, special services, and the principal medical officer,
mental health.
Number of new cases 106
Other attendances 2,275
(This includes children seen for therapy and parents attending with
them for advice, annual re-examinations of boarding school children;
parents seen alone, apart from treatment sessions, and lastly interviews
with representatives of medical, educational and social services,
such as medical practitioners, school welfare officers, health visitors,
etc.).
Total attendances : 2,487
(1) Pupils 1,091
(2) Parents 1,313
(3) Other 83
Diagnostic cases seen by Psychiatrist :
Total number of cases seen 106
Reasons for Referral :
Nervous Disorders (Fears, Depression, Anxiety, Refusal
to attend school) 38
Behaviour Disorders 28