ABSTRACT
This chapter shows that satisfactory child-rearing methods can do much to aid good maturation and the growth towards good citizenship. It discusses various areas of the country, as part of the in- service training of teachers, doctors, health visitors and the like. There are three separate but interrelated areas in which the two professions mainly represented upon this problem — contact with parents individually, in group situations or as members of the community; contact with children; and training student members of two professions. One of the major advances in preventive mental health has been the work of Bowlby and his associates on the importance of the mother-infant relationship. Mental health is about real people; and maturity and good citizenship do not consist in reaching some theoretical level of perfection. The aim must be to help each individual to make as good an adjustment as his potential and circumstances will allow; and to take it confidently.
