ABSTRACT
Part III is in many ways a continuation of Part I, being mainly concerned with the practical management of difficult children. It also emphasizes the need for the professional worker to have some knowledge of normal emotional development. It begins with a letter written to a Juvenile Court magistrate in 1944 suggesting that (with the help of professional workers) he look at the juvenile delinquent from the point of view of which type of existing social provision would be of most help in the individual case. There is special emphasis on the need for hostels and for magistrates to be involved in running them. The second paper is a leading article from the Bdtish Medical Journal (1951) which discusses Bowlby's World Health Organisation monograph, Maternal Care and Mental Health, and its conclusions, derived from statistical studies, about the effects on children of separation from parents and home. It suggests that these conclusions could be used as a kind of preventive medicine.
