[原著］沖縄県の-離島における児童生徒の発達と適応に関する継続研究
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Since 1978 we have carried out our longitudinal study on the development and adjustment of the children on an isolated island in Okinawa which has a population of 1,200 people. We have adopted the following study methods : The university staff ( clinical psychologists ) visited the island 2 to 3 times a year and stayed there for a period of 3 to 5 days; administered psychological tests to the elementary and junior high school students ; offered mental health counseling, consultation services and mental health education to the people in need of it; and made follow-up studies of the cases and of all the junior high shool graduates. Through these activities we have observed and evaluated the development and adjustment of the children. We anticipate that the presentstudy will be carried on for a period of at least 12 years, during which time, we will pursue and clarify the causal mechanisms of the illnesses of the children and the 'so called U-turn phenomenon' of the high school graduates. We will continue this longitudinal study so as to investigate the development and adjustment of the children, particularly their personality development, and submit a prognosis of their clinical problems. Through our case studies on the island we have ascertained that the following are some of the common problems or aspects of problems that the children have experienced : 'a lack of concentration ability', 'violence', 'aggressive attitudes', 'isolation , learning retardation', 'urinary and excretal incontinence', 'poor physical condition', 'truancy from school', and 'delinquency'. The background that brought about these problems are found to be 'a lack of, absence or separation of the parents', 'the advanced age of the children's guardians', 'special family problems', 'poverty and large families', 'the low level of the guardians' intelligence' and 'the non-interference policy in bringing up the children'. The progress of the cases after counceling seem to show that nearly 60 percent of those counselled have solved their problems. However, it is rather difficult to judge whether the solution was brought about as the result of the services we and school teachers offered them, or whether it was a natural denouement.
- 琉球大学医学部,Faculty of Medicine, University of the Ryukyusの論文