ABSTRACT
The child is seen by the psychologist at the same time as the psychiatric social worker is interviewing the parents. The educational psychologist has quite a number of interrelated functions, some of which would be generally accepted, but some of which might be more open to dispute and discussion. First, but not necessarily foremost, he has to estimate the child's intelligence level. Secondly, in many instances the psychologist will need to estimate the child's attainments level. The degree of concentration, the rapidity of response and so on, all may be significant, not only in assessing the actual scoring, but in assessing also the child's reaction to similar problems in his school environment. The intelligence test may be emotionally very significant to some children, for example to the child who is aware that he has come to the clinic because everybody has said that he is backward.
