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From ‘Child Guidance’ to ‘Child and Family Psychiatry’: Problems of Interdisciplinary Communication

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Michael Black
Affiliation:
Child and Family Psychiatric Clinics, Bedford and Dunstable
Jean Harris
Affiliation:
Child and Family Psychiatric Clinics, Bedford and Dunstable
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In March 1974 the DES and DHSS published a Joint Circular giving advice to local authorities on the provision and organization of Child Guidance (1). It recommended the establishment of interdisciplinary working parties whose brief would be to report to their Joint Consultative Committees (the function of which was defined by the DHSS in 1974) and hence, by December 1976, to the Ministries.

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References

(1) DES/DHSS (1974) Child Guidance. Circular 3/74 (Department of Education and Science); HSC(1S)9 (Department of Health and Social Security); WHSC(1S)5 (Welsh Office).Google Scholar
(2) Child Psychiatry Specialist Section, Royal College of Psychiatrists (1977) The Role, Responsibilities and Work of the Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist. Bulletin, July 1978, pp 127–31.Google Scholar
(3) Rowbottom, R. & Bromley, G. (1976) Future Organisation in Child Guidance and Allied Work. Institute of Organisation and Social Studies, Brunel University, Uxbridge, Middx.Google Scholar
(4) Royal College of Psychiatrists (1977) The Responsibilities of Consultants in Psychiatry within the National Health Service. Bulletin, Sept. 1977, pp 47.Google Scholar
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