Preventive psychiatry in the Board of Education
Bell, C.C.
Journal of the National Medical Association 71(9): 881-886
1979
ISSN/ISBN: 0027-9684 PMID: 501757 Document Number: 149155
The Board of Education has a significant role in the psychiatric prevention of criminal and psychiatric disorders. Two hundred and seventy-four children were seen over a two year period and their diagnostic groupings are presented. Follow-up was possible on 150 of the children and it was found that 70 percent of them were better. The findings and conclusions from this sample are presented.