Adolescent Psychiatry in a Private Danish Institution

Abstract

This report, which relates a practical approach to dealing with adolescent boys and men is most unusual. While the majority of the school's population consists of what we here in America would call juvenile delinquents, it is obvious from the multiplicity of problems being met and dealt with that, in the general sense, it might be considered that a large portion of their pupils may have started out as children suffering with some form of learning disorder. Even without viewing individual protocols, the reader must wonder about the statement, “a great part of the pupils are retarded,” and ask if, in some cases, is this true “mental retardation” or a reflection of the handicap of some form of learning disability.—C. C. E.