title: William Healy (1869-1963): pioneer child psychiatrist and criminologist.
abstract: William Healy, M.D., a pioneer psychiatrist and criminologist, established the first child guidance clinic in the United States in 1909, and was an early advocate of both the "team approach" and the "child's own story" in treatment and research. One of the founders and the first president of the American Orthopsychiatric Association, Healy helped introduce Freudian thought into the United States. Among his contributions to the field of criminology are his book The Individual Delinquent (1915) and his "multifactor theory" of delinquency, which broadened the field and moved it away from European criminology's stress on genetic factors. Healy developed an elaborate methodology for the complete study of the offender by a variety of specialists. He was also a reformer in the field of corrections, based on his investigations of several institutions for delinquents.
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002661:Child Guidance Clinics / Q000266:history; D002665:Child Psychiatry / Q000266:history; D003418:Criminology / Q000266:history; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D007604:Juvenile Delinquency; D014481:United States