Training in Child Guidance

great expansion of the Child Guidance Services in this country in the immediate post-World War II years. One of these difficulties has been the grave shortage of adequately trained Child Guidance Clinic team members. No detailed, or accurate, figures appear to be available for the country as a ^vhole, or as between the various disciplines concerned. Certainly conditions vary in different areas; and in general the southern portion of England is probably the more generously provided with trained personnel. But, taking the country as a whole, it seems doubtful if more than one in four of the Child Psychiatrists (of 'consultant", or equivalent, status) have had adequate basic training in their particular section of the speciality of psychiatry. A considerably larger proportion of Educational Psychologists in Child Guidance Clinics appear to have had the generally accepted pattern of basic training and experience, although here, too, the training of some members of this discipline has been predominantly