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Show clinic Staff Counsels Parents,. . . I. - V . n v -A I Mm;) M I,: - - . I : . H :4V7 v r . K- . .. yCL. lu : ' - w hiwiii nMiiiiiMMMiwMiMiiaaMiisi, '-'- iynauMi iiiiiiii iiMim nMMiumi ir i mi i m m niMiiiil A Springville couple right, discuss their child's problem with Dr. Marlow Harston, psychiatrist, left, ( and Wayne Dubois, psychiatric social worker. No family, despite intelligence, education or breeding, breed-ing, is exempt from problems in rearing youngsters, clinicians state. : Child Guidance Clinic Plans Open House At Offices Here Sunday From 2 to 6 1 Townspeople -are invited to attend the Utah ' ; County Child Guidance Clinic Open House in Spring-; Spring-; ville Sunday from 2 until 6 D.m.. on the second floor I of the Mendenhall Bank Building' on the corner of Main and Second South. The open house is expected to give the public an opportunity to see facilities of the new clinic beirj offered. forJ;lie treatment of the emotionally disturbed child, according to Howard Maycock, Springville member of the clinic board of trustees. The clinic is open daily from 9 a.m. to noon and from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.except on Saturday when the hours are from 9 a.m. until noon. The clinic is financed through several sources and children whose parents are unable to pay, are re-fered re-fered to the clinic by the family physician, the schools, public, health nurse or a religious counselor, counse-lor, members of the board state. A parent may also directly ask for ! assistance through Dr. Marlow Harston, Provo, psychiatrist, chief of staff. When parents are financially finan-cially able, they pay, otherwise there is no charge for the treatment. treat-ment. When children are being treated parents are asked to be cooperative coopera-tive as the treatment is not so effective ef-fective unless parents as well as welfare has the child's interests at heart. The Utah county organization has an experienced staff including Dr. Harston, chief of staff, who has had extensive training and background in handling emotionally emotional-ly upset and nervous disorders; I Wayne Dubois, psychiatric social worker with fine professional background and Mrs. Elsa Harris, Utah county child welfare supervisor, super-visor, Howard Maycock represents Springville on the board. Commenting on the importance "' the clinic and the manner in which it functions, members of the aff explain their work in part as follows: "What is an 'emotionally disturbed dis-turbed child?' Phychologists use the term to describe a youngster ho has a problem which he can't solveand is so concerned about ll. (often unconsciously,) that he can NOT go about his business of normally growing up. 'For example, a child caught in e cross fire between quarreling Parents or in the complex crosscurrents cross-currents of a parent's remarriage, y break out in a rash of bad j "aits. Parents rarely realize the connection between child's add be-nwior be-nwior and their own personal life. , A child may begin to wet the e Knaw his nails; whine ar have im! mares- He may pick quarrels "th other children; flunk his "asses; or begin to withdraw to ""elf too much. t ere is as much difference be-pwu" be-pwu" "emtional disturbance" in niidren and mental illness in "Wits as there is between a cold ? Pneumonia. in Teatment of emotional illness 7i children is largely a matter of lif I?ng their attitude toward b re is no shock .treatment; io chemical innoculations none of t .measures used by hospitals in watment of mental illness, eiri wnole purpose of the child tion i ce cIinic ls to Prevent emo-'nal emo-'nal upsets common to childhood generation into the mental ill- 1 ' .Wflich now strikes one Amer-lcan Amer-lcan m io." |