PSYCHIATRIC hospitals, CHILD mental health services, MENTAL health, AMERICAN children, TEENAGERS
Abstract
Historians have examined the role of psychiatric institutions in the USA and addressed whether this form of care helped or harmed patients (depending on the perspective of the time period, historical actors, and historians). But the story for children's mental institutions was different. At the time when adult institutions were in decline, children's mental hospitals were expanding. Parents and advocates clamoured for more beds and more services. The decrease in facilities for children was more due to economic factors than ideological opposition. This paper explores a case study of a hospital in Michigan as a window into the different characteristics of the discussion of psychiatric care for children. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
CHILDREN'S hospitals, CHILD psychiatry, CHILD mental health services, CHILD psychology, MENTAL health
Abstract
The article examines the interwar child psychiatry at Maudsley Hospital in London, England. In this paper, the expansion of the hospital's children's department is explored, in relation to novel behaviourist hypotheses and forging of formal links with local government and charitable bodies. It is noted that this development would structure the theoretical origins of child psychiatry.