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JOSEPH WEINREB, M.D.; ROBERT M. COUNTS, M.D.

AMA Arch Gen Psychiatry 1960;2(5):548-558.

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The Problem

The impulsive, acting-out adolescent is one of the most distressing and urgent types of cases about which the child psychiatrist is likely to be consulted. As a rule, the parents feel completely helpless when it comes to controlling these youngsters and equally helpless when it comes to understanding them. The behavior pattern in most instances has continued for many years, usually since an early age. With the onset of adolescence the behavior usually becomes exaggerated and the handling of it even more formidable, the growing up physically having made it more complicated both for the parents and for the child.

Even though the situation indicated above has been true, it is usually difficult to persuade the parents to come in for help. They are most elusive and seem to hope that the child will outgrow the problem or that some other miracle will happen to . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Worcester, Mass.

Worcester Youth Guidance Center (Dr. Weinreb, Director; Dr. Counts, Assistant Director).

Footnotes
Submitted for publication Oct. 27, 1959.

This investigation was supported in part by Research Grant M-1821 from the National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, U.S. Public Health Service, and in part by the Junior League of Worcester, Mass.

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