Children's Behavior Symptoms and Their Relationships to School Adjustment, Sex, and Social Class<sup>1</sup>

Mensh, Ivan N.; Kantor, Mildred B.; Domke, Herbert R.; Gildea, Margaret C.-L.; Glidewell, John C.

doi:10.1111/j.1540-4560.1959.tb01431.x

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“…Differences in the statistics reported by clinics serving presumably similar populations suggest that diagnostic practices vary widely between clinicians (Bahn et al, 1961;Bahn, 1960). There is conflicting evidence in the literature as to whether teachers and mental health personnel identify the same (Mensh et al, 1959;Bower, 1960) or different (Goldfarb, 1960) children as in need of care.…”

Section: Prevalence Of Mental Disorder In Childhoodmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Strategic Deployment of the Child Psychiatrist in Preventive Psychiatry*†

Eisenberg

1961

Child Psychology Psychiatry

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Section: Prevalence Of Mental Disorder In Childhoodmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Strategic Deployment of the Child Psychiatrist in Preventive Psychiatry*†

Eisenberg

1961

Child Psychology Psychiatry

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“…The nature of professional practices in the school mental health programs studied has been described in considerable detail by Gildea (1959), Glidewelt (1961), and Gildea et al (1967). Briefly, the parent education service was a series of layman-led, film-discussion programs for parent groups, usually in a series of three meetings in a school year.…”

Section: Practicementioning

confidence: 99%

“…A second advantage is that the data about one symptom may be analyzed, with confidence that the analysis is largely independent of similar analysis of any other symptom. (See Mensh, Kantor, Domke, Gildea, & Glidewell, 1959;Kantor, 1958). A third advantage is that the count of the total number of symptoms contains very few redundancies such as those arising when two or more symptoms are each a manifestation of the same phenomenon 0ike antisocial behavior, in this inventory.…”

Section: Factor Analysis Of Componentsmentioning

confidence: 99%

The preventive and therapeutic effects of two school mental health programs

Glidewell

Gildea

Kaufman

1973

American J of Comm Psychol

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In 30 classrooms randomly assigned to experimental conditions, effects on mothers' reports of behavior symptoms were compared for (a) a parent education program; (b) an in-school program of consultation, counseling, training, and referral; and (c) control classrooms. A sample of 426 families were followed for 30 months from the child's entry into third grade. A simple unweighted count of the number of symptoms reported in a home interview had adequate validity, good reliability, low reactivity, and intrinsic significance. Both programs had significant preventive and therapeutic effects on boys but not on girls. Effects were immediate in the upper middle class families, delayed in the lower class families.Beginning in 1953 the St. Louis C o u n t y (Missouri) Health D e p a r t m e n t u n d e r t o o k an ambitious a t t e m p t to subject its school mental health programs to a rigorous evaluation. The evaluation covered a period of 30 m o n t h s in two 1 The larger study on which this article is based was initiated some years ago by Professor Glidewell and his colleagues, and represents a pioneering research effort in the field of community psychology. The present article was prepared by the authors in response to an invitation from the Editor to report important and still timely aspects of the original study that were not previously published in archival sources. We are grateful to Professor Glidewell and his colleagues for giving us this opportunity to make their findings more generally available to community psychology researchers. 2This work was supported by rese~ch grant M-592 from the National Institute of Mental Health, U.S. Public Health Service, and the St. Louis County Health Department.3Requests for reprints should be sent to Professor John C. Glidewell, Department of Education, University of Chicago, 5835 Kimbark Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60637. The authors wish to express special gratitude to Herbert R. Domke, A. D. Buchmueller, Henry F. Kaiser, Ivan N. Mensh, and Win. G. Cochran whose suggestions were invaluable to the work. 295Copyright Q 1 9 7 3 by V. H. Winston & Sons, Inc. 296GLIDEWELL, GILDEA, AND KAUFMAN phases: the first 12 months, the second, 18 months. The data collection and analysis covered about 6 years, and no doubt some of the data are still under analysis. A general report of the outcome of the work was published by Gildea, Glidewell, and Kantor (1967). The present study reports one part of the specific data, the effects of the programs on the behavior symptoms of the school children, as reported by their mothers.The problem of the evaluation research was to compare the effects, preventive and therapeutic, of the availability of three levels of school mental health programs. To assess the preventive effects it was necessary to establish that the programs reduced the rate of appearance of new behavior symptoms; to assess the therapeutic effects it was necessary to establish that the programs increased the rate of termination of old symptoms.It should be noted that the problem was to ...

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“…Findings important for classification purposes also come from epidemiological studies. All investigations have shown the very high prevalence of individual symptoms such as fears, temper tantrums and enuresis (Mensch et al, 1959;Lapouse and Monk, 1958) so that psychiatric abnormality should not be inferred on the basis of single items of behaviour.…”

Section: Epidemiologymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Perhaps the most important result of these investigations has been the finding that several items of behaviour which have been thought to be indicators of maladjustment, are not. Developmental conditions such as enuresis or speech disorder have been found to have no significant association with psychiatric disorder (Mensch et al, 1959;Tapia et al, 1960). No significant relationships were found between enuresis and an overall measure of maladjustment nor between enuresis and any other symptom.…”

Section: Epidemiologymentioning

confidence: 99%