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At the margins of the medical? Educational psychology, child guidance and therapy in provincial England, c.1945-1974
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Burchell, Andrew (2021) At the margins of the medical? Educational psychology, child guidance and therapy in provincial England, c.1945-1974. Social History of Medicine, 34 (1). pp. 70-93. hkz097. doi:10.1093/shm/hkz097 ISSN 0951-631X.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkz097
Abstract
This article mobilises archival material from local authorities in England to assess the shifting role of psychologists within local school health services from the 1930s through to the reorganisation of the National Health Service (NHS) in 1974. It argues that psychologists were increasingly positioned between therapist, diagnostician and social worker, that this was bound together with a local discourse of children’s emotional well-being and that the increasing fluidity of the psychologist’s role emerged from local policies designed to stress the ‘educational’ nature of their role. In so doing, it extends work by John Stewart on child guidance and more long-standing histories of local, ‘municipal’ medical services. It suggests ways in which the older, localised provision of public health services in Britain persisted after the creation of the NHS and argues the need for a more flexible understanding of what was ‘medical’ about the local welfare state in this period.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare L Education > LB Theory and practice of education R Medicine > RJ Pediatrics |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > History | ||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Educational psychology, Educational psychology -- England -- 20th century, Students -- Psychology, Child welfare -- England -- 20th century., Child psychiatry | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Social History of Medicine | ||||||||
Publisher: | Oxford University Press | ||||||||
ISSN: | 0951-631X | ||||||||
Official Date: | February 2021 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 34 | ||||||||
Number: | 1 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 70-93 | ||||||||
Article Number: | hkz097 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1093/shm/hkz097 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 27 September 2019 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 18 October 2019 | ||||||||
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