American Orthopsychiatric Association

The American Orthopsychiatric Association is formed. The organization is initiated by Karl Menninger, who sends a letter to twenty-six leading American psychiatrists urging them to form a new group of representatives of the neuropsychiatric or medical view of crime. ... 

Bender, L. (1983). A visual motor gestalt test and its clinical use. Research Monograph n.3, American Orthopsychiatric Association... 

The Child Guidance Team included a psychologist to test and assess the child, a psychiatric social worker to visit the family, and a psychiatrist to do a clinical interview with the child. These three mental health professionals would meet as a team with the child s teachers, guidance counselor, nurse, and an administrator. The American Orthopsychiatric Association was formed in 1924 as an interdisciplinary organization of psychologists, psychiatrists, and social workers who worked in the Child Guidance Clinics (Levine Levine, 1992). 

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