Fernberger, S. W. (1928). Review of Problems in Social Well-Being. [Review of the book Problems in Social Well-Being. J. H. S. Bossard]. Psychological Bulletin, 25(6), 372-373.
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Reviews the book Problems in Social Well-Being by James H. S. Bossard (see record 1928-01286-000). Bossard analyzes three major problems that are of importance for social well-being and for social adjustment: standards of living, physical hygiene and disease, and mental hygiene. It is this last problem which will be of especial interest for psychologists. The problem of mental deficiency and its social significance is recognized as exceedingly important as will be evident, inasmuch as the author gives some 150 pages to its discussion. In this he considers scales and classification of deficiency, causes of mental deficiency and an interesting review of early and recent training experiments with the mentally deficient. Finally he evolves a program for handling the problem, all of the essentials of which must be complied with if our social control of the mentally deficient is to be at all adequate. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)