NURSERY SCHOOL AS A CONTRIBUTING FACTOR IN MENTAL HEALTH

• Published in: American journal of orthopsychiatry Vol. 3; no. 4; pp. 399 - 408
• Main Author: Sweet, Esther Colby
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford, UK American Orthopsychiatric Association, Inc 01-10-1933; Blackwell Publishing Ltd; American Orthopsychiatric Association; Educational Publishing Foundation
• Subjects: Child Care; Emotional Development; Human; Mental Health; Nursery Schools
• ISSN: 0002-9432; 1939-0025
• DOI: 10.1111/j.1939-0025.1933.tb06263.x

Nursery school takes into account all the factors that make for the maximum mental, physical and emotional growth of the child, and organizes the school program so that all sources of friction that might hinder that growth are eliminated. Because the school offers the child an environment suitable to his particular needs, freedom for experimentation with a wide variety of materials, companionship with other children, and adequate direction by those especially trained in child care, it has become an effective unit among those which promote the mental health of the child. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved)