Record

Ref NoDGH1/6/16/8
TitleEdgar McCoy (Senior Psychiatric Social Worker)
DescriptionFolder of material comprising correspondence, draft papers, published material and notes:
1) Reprinted article 'A Social Worker's Approach to Problems of Mental Health' by Robina S. Addis, National Council for Mental Health, 1946
2) Bethlem Royal and the Maudsley Hospital Children's Department Scheme for Psychiatric Examination, 1950
3) Report on Psychiatric Social Work in a Children's Ward by Charlotte Saul, based on experience at the Maudsley Hospital, 1951
4) Material relating to the Association of Psychiatric Social Workers, comprising evidence submitted to the Ministry of Education Committee on maladjusted children; memorandum for the Mental Health Sub-Committee of Standing Medical Advisory Committee (Scotland) concerning medical requirements in the fields of child guidance and juvenile delinquency, with draft copy; 1951-1959
5) Reprinted article, 'History of the Child Guidance Movement' by Robina S. Addis, National Association for Mental Health, 1952
6) The Special Educational Treatment (Scotland) Regulations (9 & 10 Geo. 6. c. 72), 1954
7) Material relating to proposed research into separation experiences of children referred for residential psychiatric treatment comprising, correspondence between Edgar McCoy and Dr John Bowlby at the Tavistock Clinic, London with three enclosed published articles, study notes and draft research notes, 1956
8) Attendance figures for Child Guidance Clinics at Dumfries Infirmary, Dumfries Child Guidance Centre and Castle Douglas Child Guidance Clinic, 1956
9) The Royal Medico-Psychological Association report on in-patient accommodation for child and adolescent psychiatric patients, 1956
10) Several drafts with manuscript annotations of 'Psychiatric Social Work in the Department of Child Psychiatry, Crichton Royal, Dumfries', a joint paper by Edgar McCoy and Dr W. J. B. Rogers, and attached internal memorandum from Mr McCoy to Dr Alan Tait, 1956
11) Letter from Principal Psychologist, Child Guidance Centre, County Council of Dumfries Education Committee to Edgar McCoy with enclosed figures for attendance at the clinic, 19 February 1958
12) Two drafts of appendix notes with manuscript annotations, 'Psychiatric Social Work in the Residential Unit of the Department of Child Psychiatry, Crichton Royal Hospital, Dumfries' by Edgar McCoy and Dr W. J. B. Rogers, May 1958
13) Notes on a discussion opened by Professor Alexander Kennedy (Professor of Psychological Medicine, University of Durham) on the subject of 'Problems of Prevention in the Mental Health Field', n.d.
14) Blank form for the detention of a person of unsound mind in a hospital or part of a hospital designated by the Minister of Health for the purposes of Section 20 of the Lunacy Act, 1890
15) Letter from Edgar McCoy to Health Board Archivist, Morag Williams detailing enclosed material that may be of use in the Museum to reflect the work of the Department of Child Psychiatry, 19 July 1989
Date1946-1989
Related MaterialDepartment of Child and Family Psychiatry, DGH1/3/6; Child Guidance Clinic Records, DGH1/5/24/1; Articles and draft papers by various staff members, DGH1/6/16/13 ; Staff Publications, DGH1/6/18
FormatTyped, Manuscript and Printed
CategoryHealth & Welfare : HW
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