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At the invitation of Dr Ottoni Outeiral, I represented the Hampstead Clinic for a week at the end of August and the beginning of September in Porto Alegre, Brazil, as a visiting teacher. The course was organised by the Clinica Pinel, originally for their own psychiatrists and psychologists specialising in work with children and adolescents, but it was extended to include other psychiatrists as well as speech therapists, mental social workers and members of allied professions, and there were ultimately about 100 participants.
The arrangement was actually for two courses, one on child development, using Anna Freud's concept of Developmental Lines, and the other on assessment of childhood disturbance using Anna Freud's Diagnostic Profile. The meetings of the first two days were used to introduce and explain the concepts, and to give clinical illustrations of them. For the rest of the week the participants were divided into six smaller groups, in each of which one person presented clinical material for discussion, mainly from the point of view of diagnosis, but also of treatment or management.