Annual report for the year 1959 / North Wales Mental Hospital Management Committee.

  • North Wales Mental Hospital Management Committee
Date:
[1960?]
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Credit: Annual report for the year 1959 / North Wales Mental Hospital Management Committee. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Table 1. 1952 1956 1957 1958 1959 New referrals . Number of individual children with whom one 199 363 315 426 374 or more members of the clinic team dealt ... Psychiatrists and Child Therapist— Attendances at clinics : 256 485 541 561 545 Children . 611 1014 1236 1486 1493 Parents . — — — 452 506 Psychologists—tSchool and other visits . Psychologists—Interviews : 192 199 210 261 303 Children . 41 701 1035 1013 950 Parents . Psychiatric Social Workers—Home and other -- — — 101 visits . Psychiatric Social Workers—Attendances at 495 636 504 204 193 clinics . Number of individual interviews bv all 306 1176 1604 1513 1196 Workers. ... ... 1695 3526 4590 4929 4742 B—GENERAL DISCUSSION. (1) Psychological Services of the Clinics. It remains convenient to distinguish between a “ clinical ” and a “ school ” psychological service. Both are integral parts of the clinic service as a whole, and the full resources of the clinics are available at any time depending solely on the needs of the individual case and not on the source or original cause of referral. Since the inception in 1956 of the school psychological service on the basis of joint participation between Regional Hospital Board and the Educa¬ tion Authorities of the five North Wales counties, work in schools and in respect of educational matters has grown rapidly. At the same time, more specifically clinical work also increased. The need for additional staff became urgent as a result, and an increase in the establishment of psychologists from two to four was recommended. It was suggested that the Management Committee should employ the senior and one other psychologist, and that the Education Authorities should accept financial responsibility for the other two. At the end of the year the matter was under consideration by the Regional Hospital Board and the Welsh Board of Health. The work of the “ clinical psychological service ” cannot be separated from that of the service as a whole. The “ school psychological service,” on the other hand, operates often away from clinic premises and involving the psychologists only. Its administration and development also are, for practical
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