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This book, which was developed from the material offered the students of Teachers College and of the Extension Courses of Columbia University, was written particularly for school teachers in order to give them an opportunity to secure a working basis which would enable them to recognize and to deal with the problems of atypical children.
Regarding Clinical Psychology as such the author makes the following comment:“Clinical Psychology is what the words imply—psychology based upon clinical experience. No person should consider himself a qualified clinical psychologist who has not had some medical training, nor should a physician qualify as such, who lacks training in psychology. That a psychologist may to best advantage work in conjunction with a physician goes without saying—one might add that this would be an ideal arrangement—yet even the physician should be versed in abnormal psychological processes (psychiatry), a study much neglected in the average medical school curriculum.” He has no time for the posers, the untrained as psychological experimenters, the untrained in medicine, or for those who depend upon mental tests alone for their diagnoses.
Among the distinctive features of the book are:
It deals largely with the problems of children and very little space is devoted to adults excepting in connection with some of the psychoses which are dealt with rather lightly.
The outlined scheme for history taking and special examinations is very elaborate, covering practically all of the possibilities and emphasizing particularly some of the more important procedures.