ABSTRACT
Most of the children who have been described were living in small children's homes when they began attending for psychotherapy and most of them showed considerable improvements in behaviour which could be linked to the sometimes stormy course of the work with them. In some instances therapy seemed to have helped in preventing a threatened breakdown of fostering, as was the case with Katy. In a number of others improvement occurring during the course of psychotherapy proved to be a crucial factor in enabling the child either to move into foster-care, or, as in the case of Tom, to return to his own family.
