The Development of the State Child-Guidance Clinics in Massachusetts

The organization and development of a community mental health program for children: A case study.

“…Others have emphasized the preventive and promotional aspects of mental health, and focused their attention upon children and their families (3,9,15). Massachusetts has had a long history of traveling school clinics and child guid ance clinics under the auspices of the Division of Mental Hygiene (17). How ever, in 1952, it shifted its program to a more public-health-oriented basis, and began to develop a community mental health program for children in partner-ship with local mental health associa tions (3,9,15).…”