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Child Guidance
The work of the clinic continues to progress, with
increasing emphasis on treatment of the whole family, rather than
the individual child.
Treatment facilities remain limited in that psychotherapists
are in short supply and there are neither sufficient day
places for the education of disturbed children nor a residential
unit for those requiring a period of skilled care away from home.
The advent of the Social Services Department, which now
provides the social workers for this clinic, and the provision of
a consultation service for this department by the consultant
psychiatrist from this clinic, have gone some way to furthering
the community approach to child and family psychiatry.
The general practitioners, members of the school health
service, health visitors and probation officers continue to use the
diagnostic, treatment and consultation services, and the links with
the paediatric and other psychiatric services at Kingston Hospital
provide a valuable basis for the interchange of differing skills.
During the past year the teaching and training activities
of this clinic have included a training programme for a senior
registrar in child and family psychiatry, under the Married Women
Doctors' Training Scheme, two social work students and in-service
group seminars for health visitors and probation officers.