The European Educateur Model: An Alternative and Effective Approach to the Mental Health of Children
children who cannot possibly obtain the help they require from the treatment models now employed. In the fields of education and mental health, a more creative and effective approach to children’s developmental problems is urgently needed (Albee, 1968).2 The Educateur concept of total milieu programming offersatherapeutic model with wide-scale implications for our disturbed and maladjusted children and a possible means of revitalizing our obsolescent and dysfunctional teacher training process. I believe that the components necessary for a new mental health model