ABSTRACT
This chapter describes what some members of the staff of a Child Guidance Clinic found to do over a period of ten months in a reception area, how they attempted to do it and how they worked with the services already established for dealing with nervous and difficult children. Child Guidance is a recognized community service which aims at restoring and fostering satisfactory development in the less stable child. The corresponding peace time figures, in one large London Child Guidance Clinic situated in the same borough as one of those from which the children came, show there is little difference in the numbers of boys and girls referred, though when there is any difference there are more boys than girls. The numbers of children referred by the Local Authorities to the Hospital Clinic had greatly increased, and a few children were referred to the hospital Child Guidance Clinic by the Training Centre.
