File contains charts and datasets tracking demographic, social, and psychiatric statistics from Yoruba and Stirling Country respondents. Also contains notes on and memos regarding HOS coding for studying the role of women. Includes analysis cards for Stirling and Yoruba social and psychiatric data and master lists for sample coordination.
Subseries contains datasets, computer printouts, notes, and analysis guidelines comparing psychiatric and social statistics from the Nigerian and Stirling County studies.
File contains charts comparing datasets and statistics from Yoruba villages and Stirling County. Also includes note on the 1961 to 1963 Nova Scotia re-survey sample and a memo regarding RIDITs for 1952 to 1962.
File contains notes on RIDIT values and typology analysis for comparing Yoruba and Stirling data. Also contains computer printout datasets and statistical charts.
Item is a report written by Alexander Murchison, dated January 9, 1975, and presented to the Dartmouth Branch of the Canadian Mental Health Association, regarding improving group home facilities not only for adolescents and older individuals in Nova Scotia.
Item is a videocassette of a classroom film by McGraw-Hill Contemporary Films. The video is a documentary with a real person as the subject. The video was used in the Dalhousie Medical School curriculum and was requested by Dr. J. Curtis from the Department of Psychiatry.
File consists of pages of calculations determining the differences between male and female respondents and between the Nigerian and Stirling County data samples.
Item is a videocassette of a narrated documentary, featuring the Nova Scotia Hospital in Dartmouth. It is part of the "New Beginnings" television program and was requested by Sylvie Gibeau. It was used as part of the Dalhousie Medical School curriculum.
File contains a research manual for field work for the Stirling County Study. The manual indicates that researchers could keep one copy of their field notes and reports for their personal or university's files and that all others remained the property of Cornell University.
File contains a report from a workshop in Augusta, Maine regarding the sociocultural factors and psychiatric epidemiology of the Stirling County study.
File contains a research proposal for further study in Stirling County, written by Alexander Leighton, Morton Beiser, Robert C. Benfari, and Jane M. Murphy.
Series consists of materials relating to the Stirling County Study, particularly progress reports, but also including clippings and survey documents. Also contains photographs and slides.
Item is a paper written by Alexander Murchison in December 1970, outlining the "acute psychiatric emergency" of school phobia, suggesting that it is more complicated than being simply "separation anxiety." He defines the phobia, outlines the clinical features and symptoms, discusses the role of separation in the condition, and addresses potential treatments.
Fonds consists of lecture notes, administrative papers regarding the Nova Scotia Hospital, certificates of achievement, medals, and personal correspondence.
Fonds comprises records documenting Dr. Jones' woek as a clinical psychiatrist and faculty member. Materials include patient records, manuscripts, lecture notes, course materials, correspondence, published articles, speeches, photographs, and subject files. The bulk of this collection consists of meeting minutes and correspondence related to professional associations to which he belonged.
Item is a draft brief compiled by Alexander Murchison and others in 1973 or 1974, regarding the opening of a Child Guidance Centre. Item reviews reports and speeches (Clyde Marshall's 1969 working paper, a 1970 address by the Honourable R.A. Donahoe to the Conference of Mental Health Centre Boards, the Hastings Report, and the Government of Ontario's White Paper), as a means of determining that the functioning of the Centre would be "impaired" if the Centre was to be located in the Abbie Lane Psychiatric Hospital. The item addresses concerns with the proposal arising from the schism between prevention (which the Centre would encourage) versus treatment (which the hospital engages in), as well as the stigma associated with the hospital, affecting negatively potential work with at-risk youth and their families.
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.
