Poor School Achievement: A Psychiatric Study and Classification

Abstract

Over the past few years, the au thor has developed a classification of children's emotional disorders⁴ and, in Part I, has presented and discussed the place of school achievement problems in this classi fication.⁵ A recapitulation of Part I will be found in the summary. The categories of the classification sug gest a direction of management.

Part II continues the analysis of the case records of the 162 con secutively referred children who are the subjects of these papers. It de scribes the treatment methods ap plied as determined by the classifi cation categories, the case manage ment decisions made at the end of the evaluation period, and the re sults of a two-year follow up study.

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