Word: coxes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...role of the volunteer worker can be explained in terms as simple as the needs of the children. "Play is children's job," says Mrs. Suzanne Cox, coordinator of the Activity Therapy Program, "and these children need people to help them play." The role of the volunteer, then, is to teach the mentally disturbed to play. The requirement for that job, aside from being at least eighteen years of age is simply to care and to have an objective emotional control of oneself...
This control is not always easy. "These children have been deprived of the most basic primitive need, care, and because they need you so badly their reactions to you at first range from anything from bewildered wonder to anger," Mrs. Cox explained, "and the volunteer must be prepared to face the unavoidable frustrations that arise from these actions...
...group, or chooses a special child, it is in this period of group work that the introductory problems are met and overcome by both volunteer and children. "Once the children see that you really care by the fact that you come back again, they will respond readily," Mrs. Cox explains...
...want to set up creative and rewarding situations for both the volunteers and the children," Mrs. Cox explained, "and we would not place either of them in one that was not so. In addition to its filling a desperate need for the children, the volunteer work that is offered here is also a unique opportunity for the students interested in this work and we will attempt to make this an educational experience...
...During the summer especially we are destitute of help and this is an invaluable opportunity for those who help--we look to Harvard with great hope. We are seeking to renew our affiliation with the Graduate School of Education and to further increase our program with PBH." Mrs. Cox said, "All of us are waiting for the summer school...