In 1929 London Child Guidance Training Centre accepted 134 cases, in 1930 this went up to 367 and then in 1931 it saw 399 cases. This method was known as the medical model. They then held a conference, chaired by the psychiatrist to agree what intervention was needed. Treatment was initiated by a diagnostic procedure: a psychiatrist reviewed the child’s physical and mental health, a psychologist assessed their intelligence and education, while a social worker examined the home environment. The London Child Guidance Training Centre dealt with ‘backward children, delinquents, and nervous and unmanageable children’ and was the first centre in this country that trained psychiatric social workers as well as psychiatrists and psychologists.įrom the very start the centre emphasized a multi-disciplinary approach. It had three specific functions: diagnosis, treatment and research. William Moodie was its first director and Lucy Fildes its first psychologist. They obtained premises at the Tudor Lodge, 1 Canonbury Place, Islington, opening their clinic in July 1929 with Lady Lawrence as the president and Cyril Burt as the vice president. The London Child Guidance Training Centre was established by Dr William Moodie in 1928 and was funded by the Commonwealth Fund of New York. In 1927 Cyril Burt, of the Maudsley Hospital, founded the Child Guidance Council, which arranged for eight representative professionals to study in America, these included Dr William Moodie of the Maudsley Hospital, Doris Robinson, a social worker from the Tavistock Clinic, and Dr Ralph Crowley, the senior medical officer of The Board of Education. Organisations like the Rockerfeller charities and the Commonwealth Fund of New York set out to create a ‘science of child development’. The impact and ambitions of American philanthropy in child welfare were substantial. Child guidance sought to be a form of preventive medicine to promote children’s mental well-being. Its history is an important strand that feeds on the one hand into the history of the Tavistock Child and Family Department and on the other Gloucester House.Īs a movement, ‘child guidance’ first emerged in the United States in the aftermath of World War 1, when there was huge concern about child development. The London Child Guidance Training Centre was founded over 90 years ago.
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