The Libraries of the American State and National Institutions for Defectives, Dependents, and DelinquentsUniversity of Minnesota, 1918 - 56 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 16 - It is that a defective child does not resemble in any way a normal one whose development has been retarded or arrested. He is inferior, not in degree, but in kind.
الصفحة 9 - Is that unless they are very ill and destructive, books are treated as carefully by the Insane as by the users of the public libraries. Last year, out of 8,686 volumes taken out by patients and nurses, only 9 were lost or destroyed, and of these only two were charged to patients. It is the proud boast of one of our head nurses who has under him the next to the most violent and destructive ward on the men's side, that he has had out for his patients over 450 volumes in the last two years, and has...
الصفحة 49 - AttorneyGeneral can allow as much of this sum as he thinks necessary for the purchase of such books as may be selected for the use of the prisoners at the Federal penitentiaries. Up to the present time no special plan has been adopted with regard to the purchase of library books. Some time ago the attention of Congress was called to the necessity of providing teachers for the prison schools, but Congress did not accede to the request and we have at present no school teachers in the penitentiaries,...
الصفحة 17 - ... (3, p. 20). Binet further maintains that an unequal and imperfect development is the specific characteristic of the defective, that so far as certain faculties are concerned, he remains at the level of a younger child but in respect to others he is on a level with normal children of his own age. Measuring learning and the capacity to learn by means of psychological tests Norsworthy notes the resemblances between the defective and the normal child of the same mental level and points out that unevenness...
الصفحة 20 - ... there. . . . We have been exceedingly impressed by what we have learned concerning the paucity of mental interests of individuals who start criminalistic careers. . . . These unfortunate individuals are generally unaccustomed to playing games that have interesting mental content, they rarely are found to read the type of books which lead them into constructive activi1 Healy, Wm., op. cit., pp. 284, 297. ties. They have, almost universally, very slight knowledge of the modern scientific interests,...
الصفحة 10 - ... patients over 450 volumes In the last two years, and has not lost or had mutilated one single book! The fourth and most important lesson we have learned is that the value of a well-selected library can hardly be overestimated as a therapeutic agent. I do not mean by this that a cure can be effected simply by reading the right books; that of course is absurd. But It is a fact recognized by all psychiatrists and at the basis of the treatment of the insane in all hospitals to-day, that whatever...
الصفحة 10 - ... wholesome channels, contributes to his recovery. And when amusement pall, handicrafts tire and golf and tennis are too strenuous, books and pictures will almost always help. It is for this reason that we have to be so careful of the kind of reading, especially of fiction, which we put into the hands of our patients. They must be wholesome stories; anything dealing with suicide or insanity Is strictly tabu; also stories which are morbid or would be apt to arouse a morbid train of thought. With...
الصفحة 49 - June 18, 1910, the Attorney-General, under whose authority this appropriation is disbursed, is empowered to incur such expenses for library books as he deems proper and it is not thought that any change is necessary or advisable. Under this sub-appropriation the AttorneyGeneral is authorized to purchase as many books as in his judgment are required. Should the appropriation be found at any time insufficient for the purchase of an ample supply of books, the Department In submitting its estimates of...
الصفحة 15 - A corroborating opinion is that of Dr. Witte, superintendent of the state hospital at Clarinda, Iowa. "I think that a library occupies a very important r61e, much more important than simply that of amusement or a pastime, and I am convinced that it will eventually rise to the dignity of a remedial agent . . . If we should be permitted to come back in one hundred years no doubt we should find the librarian acting under the direction of a physician and occupying a very important position in the treatment...