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Title: The conservation of the child; a manual of clinical psychology, presenting the examination and treatment of backward children
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Holmes, Arthur, b. 1872
Subjects: Psychology, Pathological Exceptional children
Publisher: Philadelphia : Lippincott
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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he child can be made.^ The Social Examination and Report.—At the end ofthe examination the child is again handed over to thesocial worker, who makes arrangements for visits to otherclinics, or to physicians and spec alists who will diagnosephysical defects, perform surgical operations, or adminis-ter medical treatment. Sometimes the social worker willfollow the child into a home and there supervise the ad-ministration of medical treatment under the advice ofthe physician. Oftentimes, too, her personal influenceover a recalcitrant child may smooth out a great manydifficulties. Exactly what she does and how she does itare more accurately set forth in a number of concrete illus-trations scattered through this book. Her work in the home naturally leads to the secondportion of her duties, i.e., the making of reports upon ^For a complete account of various tests for mental capacityBee Manual of Mental and Physical Tests, by Guy MontroseWhipple. Warwick & York, Baltimore, 1910, p. 534.
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A child liciiifi testcil for individuiil caiKicilics. Sdiiic of tliis aj))):!-ratus is like that u.sed !)V Madame Moutessori. OPERATION OF THE CLINIC 89 those phases of home life or environment which affectmentality and may assist in the classification of the case,^ Eventually she is the one who assists the parents insecurng admission to the proper institutions for the per-manent training of mentally defective children. Theparents themselves are often lamentably ignorant of howto proceed to secure relief for their afflicted child and whenthe way is pointed out to them often need the constantinspiration and prodding of some one who is familiar withthe details, and who understands the importance of theproject. They require an immense amount of sympathy,of patience and tactful management in order to do theirduty by their children and by society. The work of .securing admission to institutions for chil-dren necessarily involves a wide and thorough study of allpublic and private institutio

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