Journal of Consulting Psychology

Pfister, E. S.

doi: 10.1037/h0062003pmid: N/A

The need is stressed for facilities, other than the home, for the care of children in communities where war activities have engaged the female members of the family, to "assist us to win the war at home by giving our children the personal security, maximum health, social training, and the stability of character they will need."

Despert, J. L.

doi: 10.1037/h0054103pmid: N/A

The author summarizes the effects of war on children in the following groups: countries at war; countries at war, bombed but not invaded; and countries at war, both bombed and invaded. In the United States, the rise in the number of children's emotional problems has not been so great as anticipated; in England, the reactions have been transitory and have affected principally those children who were previously emotionally unstable; reports from countries in the third group are either too sketchy or too general and optimistic for adequate evaluation.

Carter, G. W.

doi: 10.1037/h0060301pmid: N/A

This is a picture of the life and problems of persons of Japanese ancestry who were evacuated from the Pacific Coast to the Manzanar War Relocation Center. In this artificial community of 10,000 people, the most serious problems of child care are those that are concerned with identifying the child as an American. Fear and insecurity, due to belonging to a society and yet being in doubt as to acceptance by that society, are found in every age group in different forms. Effective treatment of problems caused by forced evacuation is successful resettlement in a normal American community and clarification of citizenship status.

Hymes, J. L.

doi: 10.1037/h0062704pmid: N/A

The operation of the Child Service Centers maintained by the Kaiser shipyards in Portland, Oregon, is described. The author concludes that a night shift potentially can offer a well balanced child's day at a minimum price. The most important problem––the insecurity which children feel in the experience of going to sleep in the Center and awakening at home––can be partially solved by the nursery-school teachers' giving of affection and security.

Koch, H. L.

doi: 10.1037/h0055497pmid: N/A

Because of the lack of adequately trained personnel to staff nursery schools and day-care centers, the use of volunteer workers is necessary. The author describes some of the selection procedures and training programs for teachers' assistants or child-care aides. There is place for the psychologist in virtually every phase of the training program.

Sears, R. R.

doi: 10.1037/h0053723pmid: N/A

The discouraging gap between child care facilities and their use by a large segment of the population has prompted the University of Iowa Graduate College to offer a combined course in radio, journalism, and child welfare which will lead to an M.A. degree in one or more of the fields of communication; the minor will be in child development. Students, whose talents are such that they will be able to find successful careers in radio or journalism, are preferred.

Baruch, D. W.

doi: 10.1037/h0059265pmid: N/A

Teachers can do a far better job for children if they are doing a job for parents at one and the same time. The technique of such a program is discussed. Child care centers must give sufficient hours of service, provide care for sick children and three meals a day, adjust fees, ease home chores of mothers, and give counsel to parents.

Poffenberger, A. T.; Bryan, A. I.

doi: 10.1037/h0055185pmid: N/A

To meet present and future needs of psychologists, some type of unitary, over-all organization endowed with continuity and adequate financial competence is essential. To achieve an integration of the fortuitous pattern of societies, national and local, which have developed in the past fifty years, representatives of psychological organizations prepared a set of by-laws for a reorganized society. Frequent objections raised by some psychologists are presented and answered.

Feingold, Gustave A.; Mathewson, R. H.; Habbe, Stephen

doi: 10.1037/h0051077pmid: N/A

Item presents the official report on the financial status of the American Psychological Association in the form of a Summarized Financial Statement Balance Sheet as of December 31, 1943.

Symonds, J. P.

doi: 10.1037/h0050610pmid: N/A

Reviews the book, Mental Hygiene in School Practice by Norman Fenton , stating that the book is a clearly written, authoritative description of a point of view and a set of operations which, in the reviewer's opinion, are destined to provide a new and uniquely satisfactory solution to the problem of psychology in education. Tailored for maximal reader use and convenience, this book is divided into five parts as follows: (I) how mental hygiene serves the school (three chapters); (II) fundamental point of view in the practice of mental hygiene (three chapters); (III) individual guidance: the theory and practice of school case work (six chapters); (IV) mental hygiene and the teacher (five chapters); and (V) mental hygiene and community life (three chapters). At the end of most chapters is a summary of "implications for school practice," and at the end of each section there is a list of useful "exercises" and special references.