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Show .W ., .9 Child Guida nee Week Opens Mon day in Coii nfy I $9000 Emergency Fund Sought to Extend Operation of Utah County Child Glinic ? - T" iin . ' m t V n m ini.niirn.iii . ' rt ! f i f . ..w,, U . By JOAN GEYER What they mean, "emotionally disturbed V "Don't all children have emotional upsets?" asked a J,, s.s, .SUNDAY;; SEPTEMBER 23, : 1956 : I do . ' : - . i - jt: . .j-- . , - 4 , . - - -- - - & " - j H ' - : ;, - - -; V.. , w -y, .- NtCr p- ! f - ,- - .. ' ' 1 i " i - r-- r 4 mother urged to contribute to the $9,000 emergency fund for Utah County Child Guidance Clinic, which treats disturbed children. The answer is: "Not in the same meaning of $1,182,345 for welfare, of which the term.'' d went for dependent chilSome children draw police atdren. Runaway pappies left 3,000 tention as they act out seething Utah children to be emotions. The figure for the nation, is Bobby, 10, set a series of fires. . ' Charles, 8, pinned down a playUtah County has more delinmate; and tried to stab him, yellquency than bigger Weber County ing: "Nobody will look at me ! " and more than half as much as Dave, 9, , is an accomplished Salt Lake City. Its aid to depend' ' burglar not of candy and cookies ent children is higher than Weber. f j : , r, , but of cash and jewelry. Eddie, It has a high divorce rate. first drew police notice at six for The problem of misfit adults toting a rifle. At eight, he stole a is nation - wide. Three million $600 ring and tossed it in- an oil Americans are arrested annually. Prisons and reformatories cost Child Guidance Week, $125,000,000. The national crime which opens Monday, has cost a bilis 20 more than year been declared by mayor's ' 'dollars. lion proclamation in Provo and by Loss of Earnings other communities in Utah Ten million are mentally ill with County. Efforts will be made" to to taxpayers of one billion in the cost week raise during J . to 1954. Another 5,000,000 treated in the i enough money keep Utah County Child Guidance general hospitals are estimated to be tested for intelligence. I.q tests show if Child's poor gradet Clinic operating for the rest be suffering from emotional and IT LOOKS LIKE FUN, THIS TODDLER I. Q. TEST Jennifer, 2Vi for W. with Burton her father, are due to lack of intelligence or inability to tfsfa .good mind. They' of the year. You may mail Robinson, picture mental illness. Loss of earnings of years poses Who consultant clinical Ph.D.; psychologist, spends eight hours a help adopting parents to pick a child close to their own mental contributions to the clinic at the mentally ill is about S week giving tests at the-- clinic. Even very young children may 9 E. 200 S., Springville. ability. In the past decade in Fred a keg. Teenager single research has been underway to ft month stole rings, binoculars , and learn why America has so many camera worth $600. Gertie, se- misfits; why despite billions pourduced at 11, now menaces morals ed out in public, private and of other children. church charities, so many men Not all "emotionally disturbed" seem unwilling or unable to supchildren run afoul of the law. port their families; why so many m ' Hilda, a neat, polite child of 10, women are inadequate mothers. . ' i. fl refuses to go to school. Ida, failResearchers say personal hising in classes, has frantic night tories of adult misfits indicate that fears. chronic disaster began with many who from suffers the Joe, sick, as abnormal ways of thinking and continuous anger, called "hostili- feeling in childhood.. ty," disrupts his whole classroom. It has become apparent that, Your Concern not only is treatment at child level Why should this concern you? cheaper,, but that often it may It is of Immediate concern be- - prevent ills seemingly incurable cause Utah County, during Child at aduifr level. a. Guidance Week, Monday through J In an effort to stem human dis v ... '. at an earlier stage, Utah Saturday, seeks to raise $9,000 ras-teemergency funds to keep its lestablished its first child guid clinic at Springville operating the ance center at University of Utah rest of the year. Medical school. Soon it was It is of long range concern be- swamped with chidren. cause sick attitudes are passed on Opened in 1955 ' from neurotic parents to poorly i Utah County in 1955 opened its S raised children, who in turn be- Springville Clinic, and quickly bad came the inadequate- parentsof nlaeinaOiStht lohgr still another misfit generation. A Let's take" Joe, a boy, 9, desertsurvey in one state indicated half ed by his father and with an alcoits welfare funds went to six per holic mother. He is a sullen, "withcent of families receiving "emer- drawn" child, whose grades are gency aid." poor, and who has the toilet habits Utah spends millions monthly on of a baby. its misfit adults. U Joe's sick rages grow worse, two 919 the he . might "act them out" as past During years, i persons were admitted to Utah crimes. In recent years. United State Hospital. It costs taxpayers States has had some shocking J about $1100 per year for each pa child murders. tient. Average confinement naMore common are the sick fears m state which is cause withdrawal from life, tionally hospitals eight For it called in acute stages "schizosome, is, lifelong. years. Cost of Crime High phrenia," most common of mental Utah spends $1,310 per year per illnesses. inmate at toe State Prison, and Joe was lucky. economic less due their imprisonHe was referred to Utah County ment costs the state another Child Guidance Clinic. Here he Added to the cost of crime was given toe Bender Gestalt test must be cost of maintaining police to learn if injury or fever might departments, jails, courts, indus- have caused organic damage to his i: trial school and probation and pa- brain. PICTURE TELLS STORY WTOCH VARIES WITH CHILD Michael (like himself) are in mortali danger. Most common test picture! role departments and loss" of I. Q. verbal and performance John 4, who posed with nursery pictures, Is confident used for older children, are jschool and familyt scenes, neutral itt Robinson, stolen property. tests showed he had normal in to in can the ld anxious monkey safety. Abnormally themselves, about which the1 child spins a story with grim picture jump Alcoholism costs Utah $6,000,000 telligence. The ink blot, as small it sonal creatures might interpret proof that helpless meaning. Rorschach "fnk blot", tests have same function. a yeari Drunk arrests have risen and apperception tests, all 16 per cent in toe past two years. indicated sickness in Joe's thinkState Hospital records show ad- ing patterns. r missions for alcoholism from Utah But unlike some children, found 1 County are very high. by toe clinic to be too far gone In a single month, Utah spent (Continued on Page 20) one-thir- tax-support- " ? yJ ," ' TV 1 The child who drew these figures slashing Instead : of than has average intelligence but was so ill he shapes higher aa required hospitalization,. shown by various tests. Drawings on this page were made by patients at Utah County Child Guidance Clinio as part of testing program. over-lappi- . just-touchi- - - t ?' r - vilniiM Jin,,,, v ii :- - f - " . is if r f iv: hi - , ng (Mm - f:;yy , SICK CHILD DREW THIS JUMBLED PICTURE ng J Ij;. V - t; i' ' ... $1,750,-000,00- 0. ij - f o O - . 11111 multi-phase- d - 6 O o - ili'ijiJIUBWMMi AT. s 9 4 ..... tan ",wnt TEST GIVES CLUES TO BRAIN DAMAGE Child whose work appears above had I.Q. of 46 per cent of normal. Perception of space, measurements and memory of related things here give psychiatrist clues as to possible brain 'damages; ; f .. r ; f - - - ji Y- .. - 4 in mm j . 'I " t '" fas :(!. 4 . .-- ,K $1,-800,0- 00. .,j..:7 per-chi- draw-a-pictu- OFFERS BEHAVIOR CLUES A child draws.' not just what he seeswbut as he perceives it. Child Guidance. Clinic patient, who drew ) pictures above, apparently sees woman as powerful figure. His father may be absent from the home or play minor role in child's life. DRAW-A-PICTU-BE re . -- ''I -- 4 4 V f t - ' r . r -- i - ' " -- ' - . ' ' r s' I r 1 x ; f - : : i . I I r I" m .;-- ' ' . . - J - . , i .' X- - - - t' ',-.v. i .A'. -- . i .: i rj ,. . ...... : s ' '.::- . ! '1 i - f r. : t. ,-- - - . V . . - J .J,: :'- " v -":-:r- - - .. v. ; 4 J THE FACELESS ADULTS INDICATE TROUBLE 'HERE These walking giants (parents) are not in normal close; relationship to the child who drew them. The test provides clue to this ill child's ability to form close personal relationships with others. i( EOW- - CAN DOTS, CURVES, ANGLES TEST CHILD T J Drawings aoove are toy girl of average intelligence able "fairly well" to per- ceive shapes in relationship to each. other but of such, "anxious and constricted" personality that she used only one third of page. TOYS HAVE DOUBLE PURPOSE IN CLINIC PLAY AND DIAG- NOSIS--Her- e Bonnie Wilson, psychiatric social worker, poses with their disturbed personality. Reason, for one child's flat refusal to go to school was fear that her ouarrelins parents would separate. Watchson of receptionist, Mrs. Shannon Reece. This family has worked out Its problems, and the child is again Gregary Reece, 9, ing children in action in play provides psychiatrist with clues to, doing well in school. . |