The Child with School Problems

Abstract

Failure in school affects about 20 per cent of school children, and is an important problem for medical consideration in that the reason for failure is often a diagnostic challenge.

In large metropolitan areas many of the school problems en countered are the result of the emotional condition, which fre quently has a direct relationship to the socia-economic or socio- cultural background or both. These are most often problems related to mental health rather than deviations from physical health. Much more knowledge is needed in this area of mental health.