[In Singapore. Children have been having psychiatric problems since time immemorial. It was just that nobody cared!]
This year, 2020, is the 50th year of the Child Guidance Clinic, in Singapore.
It started in 1970 with the first formal and separate set up of a Child Guidance Clinic.
Though from the newspaper reports, it seemed like it had been in the plans for some time.
As early as September 1954, there was talk of a Child Guidance Clinic to be opened "late next year" (i.e. 1955). This was sort of a follow-up story to the news from a year before (1953) on the same topic.
But Singapore had more important things to worry about then (the 1950s), like getting self-government from the British, and presumably the Brits were occupied with either trying to help Singapore be self-governing (or prevent it?).
Also, communists insurgents.
So in 1966, there was still talk about how Singapore could really use a Child Guidance Clinic. Because one had not been set up.
