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JOINT COMMISSION ON MENTAL HEALTH OF CHILDREN

JOINT COMMISSION ON MENTAL HEALTH OF CHILDREN CRUSADE FOR THE CHILDREN-By Walter J. Trattner. Chicago 60611: Quadrangle Books, Inc. (12 East Delaware Place), 1970. 319 pp. Price, $ 10.00. JOINT COMMISSION ON MENTAL HEALTH OF CHILDREN-Crisis in Child Mental Health: Challenge for the 1970s. Report of the Joint Commission. New York: Harper, 1970. 578 pp. The Joint Commission, charged with assessment of the nation's care of emotionally and mentally disturbed children, has issued a brilliant, literate, humane document, pleading for the rights of children. Several chapters deal with the impact of contemporary American society on mental health. The impact of poverty is stressed. Difficulties of minority groups are emphasized, and racism is dealt with strongly and honestly. The Commission details the magnitude of the problem: "At least 1,400,000 of our youngsters under eighteen need immediate psychiatric care." ". . . only about 5-7 per cent of the children who need professional mental health are getting it." The Commission also considers the development of the normal child, the school as a social system, and the issue of employment as related to mental health. Most importantly the Commission gives specific recommendations for relieving the dire situations it has highlighted. It recommends advocacy for children through establishment of a Presidential Advisory Council on Children and through state and local child development agencies. Active participation by professionals, laymen and consumers would occur through a network of child development councils throughout the nation with the responsibility of ensuring availability of complete diagnostic, treatment and preventive serv2328 From 1870 to 1900, increasing numbers of American children were caught in the tentacles of the spreading factory system. Some measure of social legislation for women and children had been secured in the older industrial states earlier in the nineteenth century, but by 1890 these laws were largely ignored. By 1900, the number of children under the age of 16 engaged in gainful occupation was at least 1,700,000, and some students of the problem believed the figure was much higher. The spectacle of thousands of children caught in a ruthless economic system, VOL. 61, NO. 11, A.J.P.H. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png American Journal of Public Health American Public Health Association

JOINT COMMISSION ON MENTAL HEALTH OF CHILDREN

American Journal of Public Health , Volume 61 (11) – Nov 1, 1971

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CRUSADE FOR THE CHILDREN-By Walter J. Trattner. Chicago 60611: Quadrangle Books, Inc. (12 East Delaware Place), 1970. 319 pp. Price, $ 10.00. JOINT COMMISSION ON MENTAL HEALTH OF CHILDREN-Crisis in Child Mental Health: Challenge for the 1970s. Report of the Joint Commission. New York: Harper, 1970. 578 pp. The Joint Commission, charged with assessment of the nation's care of emotionally and mentally disturbed children, has issued a brilliant, literate, humane document, pleading for the rights of children. Several chapters deal with the impact of contemporary American society on mental health. The impact of poverty is stressed. Difficulties of minority groups are emphasized, and racism is dealt with strongly and honestly. The Commission details the magnitude of the problem: "At least 1,400,000 of our youngsters under eighteen need immediate psychiatric care." ". . . only about 5-7 per cent of the children who need professional mental health are getting it." The Commission also considers the development of the normal child, the school as a social system, and the issue of employment as related to mental health. Most importantly the Commission gives specific recommendations for relieving the dire situations it has highlighted. It recommends advocacy for children through establishment of a Presidential Advisory Council on Children and through state and local child development agencies. Active participation by professionals, laymen and consumers would occur through a network of child development councils throughout the nation with the responsibility of ensuring availability of complete diagnostic, treatment and preventive serv2328 From 1870 to 1900, increasing numbers of American children were caught in the tentacles of the spreading factory system. Some measure of social legislation for women and children had been secured in the older industrial states earlier in the nineteenth century, but by 1890 these laws were largely ignored. By 1900, the number of children under the age of 16 engaged in gainful occupation was at least 1,700,000, and some students of the problem believed the figure was much higher. The spectacle of thousands of children caught in a ruthless economic system, VOL. 61, NO. 11, A.J.P.H.

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Published: Nov 1, 1971

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