This book is an attempt to bring together the body of practical experience in the treatment of maladjusted children which clinicians have been accumulating during the past 15 years. 2 chapters are devoted to a discussion of the most usable diagnostic procedures for understanding the child. The remainder of the book takes up and critically evaluates the treatment methods used by professional workers in the clinical, social work, and educational fields. The use of the facilities of the school, the recreational group, and the camp in the treatment of the individual child; the techniques of changing harmful parental and family attitudes; the methods of conducting various levels of treatment interviews; the use of foster home placement and institutional care—these and other avenues of treatment are discussed. Criteria are given to assist in the intelligent selection of treatment methods in the case of a particular child. The book summarizes clinical experience and available research regarding each type of treatment, and contains up-to-date bibliographies permitting further study of each topic. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved)