The Joint Commission on the Mental Health of Children (JCMHC) was a sprawling, multidisciplinary project that took shape in the years immediately after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Participants included child psychiatrists, educators, psychologists, social workers, philanthropists and other laypeople and professionals interested in the plight of children. While the original inspiration for the JCMHC was to address the potential for violence from disturbed children and adolescents, its findings and recommendations were an indictment of American society itself in which poor children went hungry, minority children were oppressed and there were not sufficient resources dedicated to the mental health of the nation's population of young people. The task forces and committees of the JCMHC spent significantly more time addressing prevention and mental health rather than mental illness. Two years into the work of the JCMHC, the leadership formed a committee to specifically examine issues related to race. The final report, published in popular book form as Crisis in Child Mental Health, arrived after the unraveling of the liberal consensus that had fueled President Lyndon Johnson's Great Society programs. Most of the proposed solutions for government intervention were ignored by the Nixon administration. The focus on mental health and the willingness to take a critical look at the detrimental effects of racism had represented child psychiatry at that time. In the decades that followed, however, child psychiatrists turned away from issues about prevention, race and environment and instead focused on the problems of mental illness in individual children.

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儿童心理健康联合委员会，1965-1970：情绪障碍、种族和儿童精神病学未采取的路径

儿童心理健康联合委员会 (JCMHC) 是一个庞大的跨学科项目，成立于约翰·F·肯尼迪总统遇刺后的几年内。参与者包括儿童精神病学家、教育工作者、心理学家、社会工作者、慈善家以及其他对儿童困境感兴趣的非专业人士和专业人士。虽然 JCMHC 的最初灵感是为了解决受困扰的儿童和青少年可能发生的暴力行为，但其调查结果和建议却是对美国社会本身的控诉：贫困儿童挨饿，少数族裔儿童受到压迫，而且没有足够的资源专门用于解决这些问题。全国年轻人口的心理健康。JCMHC 的工作组和委员会花费了更多的时间来解决预防和心理健康问题，而不是精神疾病问题。JCMHC 工作两年后，领导层成立了一个委员会，专门审查与种族有关的问题。最终报告以畅销书形式出版，名为《儿童心理健康危机》，是在推动林登·约翰逊总统伟大社会计划的自由派共识瓦解后发布的。大多数提出的政府干预解决方案都被尼克松政府忽视。对心理健康的关注以及批判性地审视种族主义有害影响的意愿代表了当时的儿童精神病学。然而，在接下来的几十年里，儿童精神病学家不再关注预防、种族和环境问题，而是关注个别儿童的精神疾病问题。