Today’s Priorities in Mental Health: Children and Families — Needs, Rights and Action

✍ Scribed by Stuart H. Fine M.B., Robert Krell M.D., Tsung-yi Lin M.D., Morton Beiser M.D. (auth.), Stuart H. Fine M.B., Robert Krell M.D., Tsung-yi Lin M.D., Morton Beiser M.D., David S. Freeman D.S.W., Richard Nann D.S.W. (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 1980
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 225
• Series: Priority Issues in Mental Health 1
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Two themes seem to emerge repeatedly when reading through this volume. One is 'consensus' and the other is 'search'. There was a strong consensus during the Congress that children and families were the major and foremost concern of all present, regardless of their geographic origin or professional background. This concern was often expressed in terms of commitment to or as goal for the international mental health movement for the years to come. The second theme, 'search', represents an effort to translate this concern into activities: search for concrete, immediate goals, for ways and means of translating into actual programs and projects, for interested people to carry on the work and better ways to train them to do the work well, for ways to obtain support, and lastly, search for ways of coordinating efforts of people in different parts of the world. All these and other matters are taken up in the discussions in this volume. The complexity of problems encountered in a rapidly changing world and the diversity of resources available in different parts of the world, make the task of searching difficult and sometimes confusing. In spite of the earnest efforts made, the results may be inconclusive and some of those pro­ posed can be regarded only as hypotheses or ideas for experimentation.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Introduction....Pages 3-3
The First Margaret Mead Memorial Lecture....Pages 5-13
Attaining the Full Potential of Human Achievement — Physical, Social and Psychological....Pages 15-24
The Needs of the Child and His Development....Pages 25-29
Front Matter....Pages 31-31
Introduction....Pages 33-34
The Social Context of Health: Effects of Time, Place and Person....Pages 35-48
Children and Families in the Third World: Dilemma or Hope?....Pages 49-58
The Traditional Family in a Changing World....Pages 59-67
The New Dichotomy of Mankind: Mothers and Non-Mothers....Pages 69-72
Front Matter....Pages 73-73
Introduction....Pages 75-75
Human Rights and the Rights of the Child....Pages 77-83
Securing Rights of Children by Citizen Advocacy....Pages 85-92
Children’s Rights....Pages 93-105
Front Matter....Pages 107-107
Introduction....Pages 109-110
Mental Health for Children and Families: Immediate Research Needs....Pages 111-117
Mental Health Initiatives for the Eighties....Pages 119-127
The Challenge of Child Mental Health and Development: WHO/UNICEF Response....Pages 129-133
Front Matter....Pages 135-135
Introduction....Pages 137-137
The Youth Panel: A Symposium....Pages 139-143
The Mary Hemingway Rees Memorial Lecture....Pages 145-154
Front Matter....Pages 155-155
Introduction....Pages 157-157
Bonding, Attachment, and Early Infant Development....Pages 159-161
Alternatives to the Nuclear Family: The Role of the Extended Family and the Community in Child Rearing....Pages 163-165
Divorce, Separation, and Custody....Pages 167-170
Mental Health of Children of Migrants and Cultural Minorities....Pages 171-173
The Impact on Children in an Overmedicated Society....Pages 175-176
External Stresses on Family Life....Pages 177-179
Child Abuse and Neglect....Pages 181-185
Food Habits and Mental Health of Children....Pages 187-188
Problems of Exceptional Children: The Gifted and the Limited....Pages 189-191
Psychosis, Psychosomatic Illness and Chronic Illness in Children....Pages 193-195
Making Unwanted Children Wanted: Preparation for Parenthood....Pages 197-201
Healthy Attitudes toward Developing Masculine and Feminine Roles....Pages 203-205
Psychotherapy of the Whole Family....Pages 207-209
The Influence of Mass Media (Television) on Children — Prosocial Aspects....Pages 211-213
Creative Leisure for Children and Families....Pages 215-218
Mental Health and School....Pages 219-221
Alcohol and Drug Abuse....Pages 223-225
Physical Surroundings and Environmental Influences....Pages 227-228
Children’s Rights/Patients’ Rights and Child Advocacy....Pages 229-231
Front Matter....Pages 155-155
Religion and Mental Health in Children....Pages 233-235
Self-Help and Mutual Aid....Pages 237-241
Back Matter....Pages 243-251

✦ Subjects

Public Health/Gesundheitswesen