The purpose of this book is to help parents, teachers, and welfare workers to understand the function of Child Guidance Centers in England. Since referrals to the Centers are made by the teacher, it is he who has to acquire a new knowledge of a psychological service which has started to supplement the work of the schools. Dr. Cleugh emphatically makes a case for the educator's continued responsibility for the difficult child, a responsibility which by no means became suspended through the advent of the clinical expert. Both have to understand each other better in the future than they