Comparative Changes in Teachers’ Attitudes Resulting from Courses in Mental Hygiene and Educational Guidance

Abstract

Teachers' attitudes play an important part in the personality develop ment of the child. The psychologist, mental hygienist, guidance counselor, teacher, parent, administrator, are all concerned with this factor in the process of child education. The experimentalist has attempted in the past to pro vide data on the attitudes of teachers toward behavior problems. As a result, the experimental literature has yielded valuable information on the general subject of teachers' attitudes toward behavior problems encountered in the classroom. However, much remains to be done before a satisfactory, adequate knowledge can be claimed. Moreover, such data as have been obtained are not without contradiction as will be seen in the review of the literature below.