MENTAL HYGIENE IN THE NEW PEDIATRICS

[摘要] THE PRACTICE of the New Pediatrics in the office and the home is comprised preponderantly of supervision of growth and development of well children and treatment of the less profound disturbances of physical and mental health. Pediatricians have pioneered in efforts to incorporate mental hygiene into medical practice, although with considerable hesitation and confusion. It is particularly in this area, during the past two decades, that new concepts have been introduced—with inevitable disruption of the teaching as well as the practice of pediatrics. This may be the crux of the problems presented by the New Pediatrics.Other recent advances, however impressive, have been more technical than conceptual. In general, progress in knowledge of infectious disease, nutrition, cardiology, metabolic disorders, endocrine disease and genetics has followed the natural course of discovery and increasing complexity that develops from application of new techniques to established concepts.

[学科分类] 儿科学