ABSTRACT
Since the interns and supervisors of the Child Psychological Clinic at Stony Brook all utilize a behavior modification framework, it was decided to assess the effectiveness of this clinic; as such, this evaluation is an assessment of behavior modification procedures as implemented by graduate students in clinical psychology. Instead of having a clinician rate a child as improved or unimproved, they had the parent describe his child's presenting symptoms six months after the family's last clinic contact. The Child Psychological Clinic provides free treatment on an outpatient basis. With young children, the focus of treatment was on the way in which the behavior of the parents, or teachers, influenced the children's problems. The Child Psychological Clinic is staffed primarily by second- and third-year graduate students enrolled in Stony Brook's PhD program in clinical psychology.
