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Hospital Board to increase the psychiatric
establishment next year
The following are statistics for the child
guidance clinic:-
Referrals 1969 177
Diagnosed by psychiatrist 112
New cases seen by psychiatric social
workers 94
Number of families helped by
psychiatric social workers 250
Total attendances to see psychiatric
social workers (parents) 1,703
Total attendances to see psychiatrist
(parents and/or children) 408
Number of cases treated by
psychotherapist 18
Total attendances to see psychotherapist
476
Waiting list for P S W at 31st December.
1969 (amended - i.e. pre-1968 referrals
not carried forward) 38
Waiting list for psychiatrist at 31st
December, 1969 (i e cases prepared by
P S W C C 0, etc) 20
Treatment Waiting list
Figures are not available as vacancies are
so rare that it is impracticable to list those
needing treatment.
It is interesting that general practitioner
referrals are so few but it is remembered that
we did ask that school medical officers and
general practitioners should be asked to refer
cases to the West Middlesex Hospital as their
waiting list was lower than ours.
Analysis of referrals Education
department 54
Health department 43
Parents 43
Children's department 12
General practitioners 10
Probation officers 6
Transfers 6
Others 3
Recommendations for special education
day special schools 21
Residential schools 16
As usual the waiting lists tend to underestimate
considerably the number of children
who might usefully be referred to the clinic
or for treatment Many of the referring agencies,
especially the School Psychological Service
tend to refer only the more urgent cases as
they know that the clinic simply has not been
able to cope in an intensive way if there is a
spate of referrals.
Meetings continued with the children's
department and the clinic received many
visits from students, some of whom attended
for relatively short training periods
Dr MoyaTyson BA BSc (Econ) Senior Educational
Psychologist for special schools and special
units reports as follows:-
The distinctive character of my specialised
appointment as Senior Educational Psychologist
for Special Schools and Special Units continued
to develop in 1969; while my role as a member
of the two medical unit teams and as an
educational psychologist carrying out assessment
and educational psychological guidance in the
special schools continued, I saw more children
at the request of psychologist colleagues in
Hounslow and adjoining boroughs in order to
give a second opinion based on the more
specialised tests and techniques at my disposal
Lectures to many professional groups were
given also and I continued to act as an
examiner of teaching practice to one of the
courses for teachers of mentally handicapped
children at Chiswick Polytechnic and also as
a member of the review panel of the Training
Council for Teachers of the Mentally Handicapped
Two new developments are of particular
interest: one was the establishment of a special
developmental/diagnostic class at Busch Corner
Clinic, run jointly under the direction of Mrs
Cox and myself bv a teacher and a speech
therapist This development came about because
of the hopeful results demonstrated by the
experimental summer school in 1968 and the
Friday morning class run by Mrs Cox and myself
at the Hearing Clinic. Because of limitations
of space and the intensive nature of the
programme there is a maximum of eight young
children at the Hearing Clinic, and four at Busch
Corner Clinic. Results from these two classes
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