File contains 11 reports, papers and proposals regarding child welfare and group homes in Nova Scotia, drafted between 1969-1974 by committees of the Atlantic Child Guidance Centre and the Children's Aid Society of Halifax.
File contains six reports, papers and proposals regarding child health, child welfare, and group homes in Nova Scotia, drafted between 1970-1975 by Alexander John Murchison and others.
File also contains copies of presentations given at the 23 May 1973 meeting: "Why an Alternate Family? (The Child and the Group Home," by Alexander Murchison; "The Orphan and Society," by Jean Paton-Kittson; "Social Services and the Group Home," by Frank Capstick; "Democratic Perspectives on Group Home Supervision," by Ronald L. Smith; "Houseparents Forum," by Mr. and Mrs. Salvador Renaldo; "Public Relations in a Group Home Program," by A.S. Kyte; and "Funding of Group Homes," by Timothy T. Daley.
File contains a report written in 1973 by Alexander Murchison and Edward Newell regarding a restructuring of child and adolescent programs and services in Nova Scotia to "stimulate community and government interest, participation, and action for change."
File contains notes and manuscripts written by Alexander Murchison and Norris Turner between 1972–1975 reviewing child guidance clinics and group homes in Nova Scotia. File also contains the June 1973 issue of the Nova Scotia Association of Social Workers Newsletter, with articles by Norris Turner , Patricia Hardy, Ernie Rafuse, F.M. Fraser, Martin M. Dolan, Linda Isitt, and Barrie R. MacFarlane.
File consists of video recordings and a transcription of an interview with John Paterson. The interview was conducted by Anna Quon at the Gorsebrook Institute on the Saint Mary`s University Campus on October 19, 2010. This was the fifth interview conducted as part of the Our Voices Matter Project. The interview touches on a wide range of topics, including John's childhood in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, experiences with anxiety and depression, and other aspects of his personal life.
File contains a cassette tape recording of Barbara Hinds' interview with Dr. Alexander Leighton, a psychiatrist. The interview is about an investigation into the incidence of mental illness in western Nova Scotia. This is the fourth in a series of four interviews. The file also contains two typed scripts of intros and outros for two interviews with Dr. Leighton.
File contains 7 labelled videocassettes: Clinical Conference June 24, 1993 — Psychiatric Emergencies; Clinical Conference Nov 1994 — Railways, Pastry Cooks, Witches and other Delusions (Dr. J. Meagher); Clinical Conference Sept 1995 — Seniors' Mental Health Service Day Program; Clinical Conference Nov 24, 1995 — Delusional Depression in Late Life with Dr. D. Roberts and Dr. J. Walker; Clinical Conference Jan 19, 1996 — Presentation of a Cyclic Mood Disorder in a Young man with Autism and Mental Retardation; Clinical Conference Jan 26, 1996 — A Pillar of Society: The Life of Simeon the Stylite (Presenter Dr. Joseph Meager); and Management of Behavioural Disturbance in the Demented Elderly (Dr. Richard Goldberg, MD).
File contains a research grant application submitted to the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare to request funding for the Cornell-Aro Mental Health Research Project in Nigeria.
File contains an 8-page stapled publication of the New York Hosptial Cornell Medical Centre's bimonthly newsletter. Features an article about Alexander Leighton's Cornell-Aro Mental Health Research Project.
File largely consists of copies of Jane Murphy's outgoing correspondence. Also contains some original incoming letters and one outgoing letter by Charles C. Hughes.
File contains an interim progress report for the Cornell-Aro Mental Health Research Project with reference to the National Institute of Health grant M-4506.
File contains one copy of the final fourth draft of the social data questionnaire for community respondents. Questionnaire is in both English and Yoruba and has been completed by an individual subject.
File contains early drafts of the community respondent social data and psychiatric questionnaires and a survery from Aro Hospital concerning displaced and detribalised people. Also contains a memo justifying the questions used and an appendix containing a blank copy of the final draft of the questionnaire.
File contains documents relating to Alexander Leighton's 1959 trip to Nigeria. Includes a photograph, several bundles of research notes, schedules, graphic materials, and patient medical notes. Includes an article from the New York Times on the Nigerian election, and no. 10 of the Western Nigerian Illustrated quarterly publication featuring an article about psychiatric treatment at the Aro Hospital. Also includes an envelope labelled 'thought disorder pills' containing five spherical pills.
File contains memos from Charles C. Hughes to Alexander Leighton, Jane Murphy, and other members of the Cornell Program in Social Psychiatry concerning past research projects and studies. Also contains copies of outgoing letters from Charles C. Hughes to Mr. Okunbeyi of the Nigerian government and Dr. Lambo of Aro Hospital discussing the possibility of a research project in Nigeria.
File contains memos, letters, and conference discussion notes for a task force meeting for the Cornell-Aro Mental Health Research Project. Also includes a sociocultural considerations handbook by Charles C. Hughes.
File contains a list of follow-up tasks related to community respondent information. Also contains a bundle of small notecards with similar follow-up questions and notes.
File contains information on 14 villages to aid researchers in determining whether they should be considered integrated or disintegrated and modern or traditional. Information is based on population, education, religion, industry, and family structure.
File contains one blank copy of the final fourth draft of the social data questionnaire for community respondents. Questionnaire is in both English and Yoruba.
File is comprised of documents related to data sampling in the city of Abeokuta. Contains lists of names, notes on divisions of neighbourhoods, and information and statistics relating to city areas and squares. Also contains a large folded map of Abeokuta.
File contains notes and information on villages in the Egba region of Nigeria. Also includes memos from Charles C. Hughes containing travel observations and village statistics.
File contains documents relating to the attemped Indiana IBM 101 simulator project for analyzing psychiatric symptoms and social factors. Includes communications between Jane Murphy, Veronica Shaw, and Grafton Trout of the Indiana University International Development Centre. Also includes IBM simulator dataset printouts and notes and memoranda regarding data migration processes. The project was never used.
