RF Annual Report - 1935 - The Rockefeller Foundation

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institute during a developmental period, enabling
it to lay explicit emphasis on teaching and
research as contrasted with mere therapeutic
work, and to hold a valuable group of teachers
and investigators at teaching which is much in
demand and at research which is critically important
for the validation of a significant school
of psychiatric activity.
The Johns Hopkins University School ofMedicine
Study and Teaching ofChild Psychiatry
In the study of mental diseases child psychiatry
is one of the basic fields to be investigated.
In recent years The Rockefeller Foundation
has contributed toward research in this
field at several institutions. The Annual Report
for the year 1934 told of a grant to the Johns
Hopkins University School of Medicine toward
the support for one year of a program of study
and teaching in child psychiatry to be carried on
under the joint auspices of the Departments of
Psychiatry and Pediatrics, In continuance of
this aid an appropriation of $55,200 was made
to the school in 1935 toward the support of the
undertaking for three additional years.
The work is being carried out in the Pediatric
Clinic, where a thorough study is being made
of the complaints, personality developments, and
characters of children showing deviations from
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