View report page

fhilld Guidance
Clinic
Dr. W.P. Gurassa, Consultant Psychiatrist of the Redbridge Child
Guidance Clinic submits the following report of the work undertaken
during the year:-
Dr. Doron left and also Mrs. Freud. Psychotherapists are in short
supply and usually live in central London so that we have to devise
ways of tempting them to make the journey out to Redbridge. We can
offer a fully staffed team in a large and lively Clinic, but unfortunately
we cannot offer the same rates of pay as elsewhere in central London,
so that we are often short staffed" and as a consequence are limited in
the treatment we can offer the children, especially individually.
We continue to develop our work with groups. We have play groups
where younger children can express their feelings in play with materials
such as sand, paints, dolls house, tin soldiers, etc., and so come to
terms with themselves and their families. There are also groups for
older children in which the children can discuss their problems with the
therapist and with each other and so gain insight which enables them to
modify their behaviour. We would like to extend this way of working yet
further, and are at present planning groups for parents.