MULTIDISCIPLINARY VIEWS ON PSYCHOLOGICAL REPORTS IN CHILD GUIDANCE CLINICS.

The article presents studies dealing with the multidisciplinary view on the preparation of written clinical psychological reports previously reported from veterans administration installations were repeated in child guidance clinics. Veterans Administration hospitals and clinics represent a setting which, in many respects, is drastically different from a community child guidance clinic. The age of the patients and the fact that their parents are invariably involved in the therapy program represent one major set of differences; another lies in the stress which a child guidance clinic places on the use of the interdisciplinary team.