| Summary: | "This book particularly is to be commended because it deals frankly with some broad issues relating to the social control of mental defectives. Society cannot avoid facing its responsibilities in solving many important problems in an humanitarian way. Dr. Wallin quite rightly emphasizes in this book that society makes its own problems by failing to develop resources for training mental defectives and keeping them out of trouble. To a greater extent than with normals, the mentally retarded are largely the victims of their environments, i.e., they do well when properly protected but are a source of much social evil when left unprotected. This book discusses the broad issues of institutionalization vs. sterilization, prevention of propagation, special schools and classes, colonies and home placements, in terms of the latest research evidence. The contribution of this book is that it views the problem of mental deficiency in a hopeful light, tearing away many of the pessimistic misconceptions which have handicapped the field in the past, and indicating positive directions for future work"--Foreword. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved).
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