Psychotherapy in schools: A rationale for more useful application

Abstract

counselors can do will spread the word of the need for more professionally trained counselors as the community pressures on the schools become more acute. This process can already be seen at work in the increased requests for full-time child guidance workers, both social workers and clinical psychologists, in the schools.It seems to me that the popularity of family therapy, the entphasis on community psychiatry and consultation, are not only a result of an altered therapeutic model of one-to-one relationship as the ideal and only way to be effective, but aIso a greater recognition of both the total forces affecting the individual and the new dimensions of interaction that need to be considered, as well as a very positive statement that change in character of individuals is possible if one understands and utilizes all the dynamically relevant energies available to us.

Promises and disaffections in mental health programs in schools

“…The literature conveys an impression of nearly endless discussions about how this should be done. "Mental health responsibilities" in the roles of school nurse or psychiatric nurse, school guidance counselor, teacher, psychiatrist, psychologist, and social worker are described and elaborated (Berlin, 1966;Fifield, 1967;Fisher, 1966;Fredlund, 1967;Hollister, 1966;Kate, 1963;Nebo, 1960;Starkman, 1966). Repetition and overlap between roles described is such that the name of one profession could sometimes be substituted for another without changing the sense of an article.…”