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Eight papers which were "working papers presented at a Seminar on Mental Health and the Family held by the WHO Regional Office for Europe at Athens in 1962" and specially commissioned chapters. These include "The Mother and the Family", "The Child in the Family", "Working Women and the Family", "Marriage Problems and their Implications for the Family", "Family Psychotherapy", "Mental Health and the Older Generation", "School for Parents," and "The Hampstead Child-Therapy Clinic."     

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This detailed paper attempts to integrate the ideas on preventive psychiatry for the family with systems theory. Goals, approaches, and specific programs are given for various types of populations, e.g., families in crisis due to loss of a member.     

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This is a study describing characteristics of the partial (defined as fatherless) family. This type of family functions as a viable form fulfilling many of the same functions as a complete family, but the sexual conjugal relationship is missing, there is a continual lack of security, children learn little of "power" relationships and constantly feel derogated and ill at ease.     

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A paper evaluating some basic concepts of child psychiatry, which finds these concepts incomplete without amending them "so that child and family may be treated as a single entity, rather than piecing them apart." Some basic family dynamics are discussed in support of that idea.