Follow‐up of 130 nursery school children disclosed that early adjustment problems tend to persist in later life. The most valuable judgments at the nursery school level for predicting later use of mental health services were the teachers' evaluations of peer relations, behavioral eccentricity, and family relations.
Foster care programs established to facilitate the return of emotionally disturbed children from the hospital to the community are difficult and taxing. This paper describes one such program structured as an extension of an inpatient program. Criteria for the selection of the children and the foster parents are set forth.
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