ABSTRACT
Behaviour which is regarded as seriously maladaptive at one point in time or by one set of people may come to be considered as less significant at another time or by other people. The physically handicapped include those suffering from one or other of the forms of cerebral palsy which have been extensively studied both medically, psychologically and educationally. The incidence of maladjustment in terms of special school provision has already been given, but there is an indefinite penumbra of children and young people who are psychologically and educationally handicapped to a greater or lesser degree by tensions or conflicts they cannot resolve unaided. Handicap and behaviour problems test one's command of the principles of assessment and guidance. The parents of 'difficult' children could react in complex ways, showing 'calm strictness, permissiveness, punitiveness, peremptoriness, dislike of some of the child's behaviour and admiration of others, in addition to admixtures of guilt and resentment.
