Book Reviews : Marriage Guidance

Date01 June 1969
DOI10.1177/026455056901500214
AuthorJohn Wallis
Published date01 June 1969
Subject MatterArticles
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Children in Care
The third of these booklets was com-
missioned by the Church Information
Disturbed Children
Office. It is a clear and sensitive account
of the services available to help children
R. J. N. Tod
in trouble. It will be of particular inter-
Longmans
est to the socially aware layman or any-
Children at Risk
one considering social work as a career.
CLARE MORRIS
Edited by A. H. Denny
C.I.O.
In spite of the changing responsibility
Marriage Guidance
of the service, the probation officer will,
John Wallis
because of his concern for humanity, as
Routledge & Kegan Paul 32s.
well as his professional duties, remain
intensely interested in the problems of
John Wallis was formerly the Training
children. His clients will not only be
Officer of the National Marriage Guid-
adult social deviants who must be under-
ance Council and is consequently the
stood in terms of their own childhoods,
ideal person to write about its aims,
but they will frequently also be parents.
ideals, organisation and methods.
Separation from families and imprison-
The title may be somewhat mislead-
ment will be very often the cause of
ing, since this is in no way a textbook
stress in his clients. The first two of
or manual of marriage counselling, al-
these small books therefore have much
though Mr. Wallis discusses this and
to offer the probation officer, not only
differentiates between marriage counsel-
in interest but also in information. Some
lors and social caseworkers, finding
articles have direct reference to the pro-
however much common ground between
bation officer’s daily practice, in partic-
them.
ular those which highlight the grief and
The first part of the book is in fact
bewilderment of the
institutionalised
concerned with methods and techniques
child - there is much here which per-
in counselling, with many examples and
tains to the adult, however defended and
discussions of ways of approach. But
apparently unemotional.
can
counselling really be simply &dquo;a
...

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