One million children
NEWS
A National
Study by
Emotional and orders in Children on
REVIEW
Bloor
165
Street
the Commission Learning Dis-
East,
Toronto,
Ontario, Canada. Britain
In
we
have White
our
Green
Papers; this one is red, green, yellow, orange and grey?each section being distinguished by its differently coloured paper. The contents are as unstuffy as the presentation. It has some Papers and
our
messages which
we
also could
use.
pungent statements regarding diagnoses such as 'dysThere are
Parents' E*
meaning
ambitions Over-ambitious parents of gifted children can do their children more harm than good by becoming exambitious for them for the said Mr. A. H. head of the Yehudi Menuhin school for musically gifted children, at a recent conference of the National Association for Gifted
tremely wrong
reasons,
Brackenbury,
Children held in Wolverhampton: The result was that the gifted child was presented to the schools not on
his own
merit but
built-in aspirations
who
believed
'miracle'
in the
Summing
of
on
the
his
parents they had a making. the three-day con-
total services locally and regionally in
order
concern
The
to and
report
provide continuity continuity in care.
in
is in itself a lesson in
communication. and price on to above address:
Availability
application
Violent antidote to empty leisure
many who were probably suppresby poor home backgrounds.
The boredom and irresponsibility of being a new 'leisured class' might be one reason for violence among young people aged between 17 and
21, said Professor T.C.N. Gibbens of the Institute of Psychiatry, Maud-
sley
Hospital,
conference of officers of the inner London probation and after-care service, said there were international fashions in group violence, which included rock 'n' roll in the 1950s, the current one being football hooliganism. Surveys had shown that football
hooliganism was more likely to be connected with drinking in Scotland and the north of England. In these cases older people were likely to be involved. Two-thirds of hooligans arrested had previous convictions. While the behaviour of soccer fans did have a liberating effect, it could grow into something more serious. Sometimes people with violent* tendencies sought an outlet by 'Paki-bashsociopolitical means ing' for instance. Others joined tough gangs in an effort to win self?
respect. Young people interviewed
in bor-
elsewhere gave the impression that they felt a strong pressure from local police to make them behave properly. To escape this, groups of youths visited other places where they could dominate the situation. Chief Superintendent J. Collie, of Scotland Yard's juvenile offenders section of the police community relations branch, said that of nearly 34,000 indictable crimes committed in 1969 by people under the age of 21, almost 70% were committed in stals and
that
up ference?the first of its kind held in Britain the chairman, Charles Botham, head of a local primary school, said there were probably more gifted children in Britain than the figure generally quoted of 2% ?f the child population. There were sed
restrictive have a and it calls for diagnosis in terms of the relationship of disability to personal development and the social context. Proposals are made for reorganisation of the which
lexia',
misdirected
sought outlets for violent tendencies in and fox-hunting shooting pheasants. Professor Gibbens, addressing a
at
a
recent
con-
ference. He reminded his audience that violence in play could be respectable. Other leisured classes had
gangs. Mr. F. H.
McClintock, lecturer in criminology at Cambridge University, said analysis of published data showed
an
increase
woundings since 1960
in of
serious of
12%,
1 1 i
with violence by about and a 250% increase in the number of lesser indictable woundrobberies
200% ings.
of belonging to a community there is an increase in violence,' said Mr.
interest at work. Dr. Glatt thought it was quite reasonable to estimate that cost of alcoholism to industry each year
McClintock.
was as
University 'a environment'
One reason why so little attention was paid to the illness was that themselves higher executives often heavy or steady drinkers had a vested interest in playing down the problem and covering up
'With greater anonymity in society
]
j
NEWS
A National
Study by
Emotional and orders in Children on
REVIEW
Bloor
165
Street
the Commission Learning Dis-
East,
Toronto,
Ontario, Canada. Britain
In
we
have White
our
Green
Papers; this one is red, green, yellow, orange and grey?each section being distinguished by its differently coloured paper. The contents are as unstuffy as the presentation. It has some Papers and
our
messages which
we
also could
use.
pungent statements regarding diagnoses such as 'dysThere are
Parents' E*
meaning
ambitions Over-ambitious parents of gifted children can do their children more harm than good by becoming exambitious for them for the said Mr. A. H. head of the Yehudi Menuhin school for musically gifted children, at a recent conference of the National Association for Gifted
tremely wrong
reasons,
Brackenbury,
Children held in Wolverhampton: The result was that the gifted child was presented to the schools not on
his own
merit but
built-in aspirations
who
believed
'miracle'
in the
Summing
of
on
the
his
parents they had a making. the three-day con-
total services locally and regionally in
order
concern
The
to and
report
provide continuity continuity in care.
in
is in itself a lesson in
communication. and price on to above address:
Availability
application
Violent antidote to empty leisure
many who were probably suppresby poor home backgrounds.
The boredom and irresponsibility of being a new 'leisured class' might be one reason for violence among young people aged between 17 and
21, said Professor T.C.N. Gibbens of the Institute of Psychiatry, Maud-
sley
Hospital,
conference of officers of the inner London probation and after-care service, said there were international fashions in group violence, which included rock 'n' roll in the 1950s, the current one being football hooliganism. Surveys had shown that football
hooliganism was more likely to be connected with drinking in Scotland and the north of England. In these cases older people were likely to be involved. Two-thirds of hooligans arrested had previous convictions. While the behaviour of soccer fans did have a liberating effect, it could grow into something more serious. Sometimes people with violent* tendencies sought an outlet by 'Paki-bashsociopolitical means ing' for instance. Others joined tough gangs in an effort to win self?
respect. Young people interviewed
in bor-
elsewhere gave the impression that they felt a strong pressure from local police to make them behave properly. To escape this, groups of youths visited other places where they could dominate the situation. Chief Superintendent J. Collie, of Scotland Yard's juvenile offenders section of the police community relations branch, said that of nearly 34,000 indictable crimes committed in 1969 by people under the age of 21, almost 70% were committed in stals and
that
up ference?the first of its kind held in Britain the chairman, Charles Botham, head of a local primary school, said there were probably more gifted children in Britain than the figure generally quoted of 2% ?f the child population. There were sed
restrictive have a and it calls for diagnosis in terms of the relationship of disability to personal development and the social context. Proposals are made for reorganisation of the which
lexia',
misdirected
sought outlets for violent tendencies in and fox-hunting shooting pheasants. Professor Gibbens, addressing a
at
a
recent
con-
ference. He reminded his audience that violence in play could be respectable. Other leisured classes had
gangs. Mr. F. H.
McClintock, lecturer in criminology at Cambridge University, said analysis of published data showed
an
increase
woundings since 1960
in of
serious of
12%,
1 1 i
with violence by about and a 250% increase in the number of lesser indictable woundrobberies
200% ings.
of belonging to a community there is an increase in violence,' said Mr.
interest at work. Dr. Glatt thought it was quite reasonable to estimate that cost of alcoholism to industry each year
McClintock.
was as
University 'a environment'
One reason why so little attention was paid to the illness was that themselves higher executives often heavy or steady drinkers had a vested interest in playing down the problem and covering up
'With greater anonymity in society
]
j
