Albert J. Solnit, M.D., Commissioner of Mental Health for the state of Connecticut, is Sterling Professor Emeritus of Pediatrics and Psychiatry at Yale University. He is the principal editor of The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child and co-author with Joseph Goldstein, Anna Freud, and Sonja Goldstein of Beyond the Best Interests of the Child, Before the Best Interests of the Child, and In the Best Interests of the Child. Barbara F. Nordhaus is assistant clinical professor of social work, and Ruth Lord is research scientist at the Yale Child Study Center.
A 26-year-old woman gives her children Valium and whiskey and lacerates their wrists. Her husband witnesses this, then goes bowling. Should these parents retain custody of their children? A trio of child-care professionals here provides practical guidelines for social workers and others who must determine what to do for abused and neglected children. Solnit, Connecticut's commissioner of mental health as well as a professor of pediatrics and psychiatry at Yale; Nordhaus, Yale professor of social work; and Lord, Yale Child Study Center researcher, discuss the handling of 35 cases in Connecticut. Their analysis is dispassionate, but the facts remain disturbing. (Feb.)
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