Word: pbh
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...benefits gained from doing both academic work and PBH activity also run the other way. As PBH volunteers moved into fields with complex problems in the 1960s, such as prisons and urban housing, they found that they needed more that just good intentions to do an effective jobs. They needed training and supervision. They had to become familiar with the critical problems in their fields and to develop tactics to deal with these concerns. In 1965, PBH committees such as the Mental Health Committee (MHC) began to use professional consultants to help them meet their needs. Several committees including...
Last year PBH began to develop formal courses to academically back up volunteer work. It hired Spencer MacDonald in coordinate in educational program. MacDonald ran a credit seminar on problems of social intervention and volunteering. Barbara Brenzell, a graduate student in Education led a seminar for PBH volunteers on issue and methods of teaching children. This year Robert Harley '73, executive vice president of PBH conducts a Social Relations junior tutorial on the myth of mental illness. As second course for credit--dealing with teaching problems and practices in high schools--will supplement the Teacher Aids Program...
...initials success of classroom study in making PBH volunteers more aware of the important issues of their work shows that PBH can fruitfully tap the academic resources of HArvard. LAst year a PBH Study Committee was set up to investigate the possibilty of financial and educational cooperation between PBH and the Faculty of Fine Arts and Sciences. The Study Committee will submit its report to the Faculty during this academic year. According to Dean Whitlock, chairman of the Study Committee and acting chairman of the PBH Faculty Committee, the report will contain the recommendations of Bob Hartley concerning educational ties...
...stimulate the creation of PBH related departmental courses...
...advise students about options for credit work for PBH volunteering...