Maternal Women Research Articles

Mental Hygiene Reaches the People

In I94I the Central Council for Health Education offered a prize for the best programme or programmes of future work submitted by any of its Affiliated Societies. The conditions of the grant were that all schemes sub mitted should be related to present-day conditions, outside the ordinary work of the Society, though in the same sphere of activity, and a piece of pioneer work in Health Education. The competition was won by the National Association for Mental Health, the Child Guidance Council and the National Council for Mental Hygiene who submitted a joint programme for Rural Mental Health Education. These Societies drew up a syllabus of four talks upon "Understanding Our selves and Our Children" and with the co-operation of the Medical Officers of Health these lectures were offered to Women's Institutes, Maternity and Child Welfare Centres and other groups in different parts of the country. Dr. Grace Calver describes her experiences when lecturing under this scheme.