PEDIATRICS Vol. 4 No. 5 November 1949, pp. 670-676
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PEDIATRICS AND CHILD PSYCHIATRY

ARNOLD GESELL M.D.1

1 Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Conn.

Pediatrics as a specialty of general medicine is concerned with the promotion conjointly of mental and physical development. Pediatrics cannot encompass the technical areas of child psychiatry which are concerned with severe psychopathologies and complex psychotherapies. It can encompass a preventive and positive type of mental hygiene through parent-child guidance and family counseling. This will require systematic technics for periodic developmental diagnosis and developmental supervision of the action system of the growing child. The principles and methods of pediatric mental health conservation must be based upon a clinical science of normal child development.

Submitted on December 16, 1948