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THE recent formation of a Child Guidance Clinic under the Child Guidance Council, and with the approval of the London County Council, is an indication of the increasing importance attached to the mental care of the pre-school child in England. Miss Arlitt's book comes at a very opportune moment, and might with advantage be read by all parents who take a real interest in the mental welfare of their children. It is perhaps rather technical for the average reader, but there is a tremendous amount of straightforward material in the book which will point the way to train the pre-school child. If all mothers and fathers could be brought to carry out the training of the young children on the lines indicated, there would undoubtedly be a considerable lessening of the number of neurotics and psychoneurotics in England, and to a less extent a reduction in the number of cases of frank mental disorder of purely mental origin. The chapters on habit formation and on social attitudes in the preschool period and the development of personality strike us as the two most useful chapters in a well-written and evenly balanced book.
Psychology of Infancy and Early Childhood.
By Prof. Ada Hart Arlitt. (McGraw-Hill Euthenics Series.) Pp. xi + 228. (New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co. Inc.; London: McGraw-Hill Publishing Co., Ltd., 1928.) 10s. net.
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Psychology of Infancy and Early Childhood . Nature 122, 877 (1928). https://doi.org/10.1038/122877c0
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