Emilia Dowling is Consultant Child Psychologist and Head of Child Psychology at the Tavis tock Clinic. Elsie Osborne is a chartered child psychologist and was Head of Discipline in the Child and Family Department of the Tavis tock Clinic, prior to her retirement.

• Notes on contributors -- Foreword to first edition /John Bowlby -- Foreword to second edition /John Byng-Hall -- Introduction /Elsie Osborne and Emilia Dowling -- 1 THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK: A JOINT SYSTEMS APPROACH TO EDUCATIONAL PROBLEMS WITH CHILDREN /Emilia Dowling -- 2 SOME IMPLICATIONS OF THE THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK: AN EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGIST'S PERSPECTIVE /Elsie Osborne -- 3 THE CHILD, THE FAMILY AND THE SCHOOL: AN INTERACTIONAL PERSPECTIVE /Elsie Osborne -- 4 TAKING THE CLINIC TO SCHOOL: A CONSULTATIVE SERVICE FOR PARENTS, CHILDREN AND TEACHERS /Emilia Dowling -- 5 JOINT INTERVENTIONS WITH TEACHERS, CHILDREN AND PARENTS IN THE SCHOOL SETTING /John Dowling and Andrea Pound -- 6 PARENTS AND CHILDREN: PARTICIPANTS IN CHANGE /Neil Dawson and Brenda McHugh -- 7 THE TEACHER'S VIEW: WORKING WITH TEACHERS OUT OF THE SCHOOL SETTING /Elsie Osborne -- 8 SOME ASPECTS OF CONSULTATION TO PRIMARY SCHOOLS /Caroline Lindsey -- 9 SCHOOLS AS A TARGET FOR CHANGE: INTERVENING IN THE SCHOOL SYSTEM /Denise Taylor -- 10 CONSULTATION TO SCHOOL SUBSYSTEMS BY A TEACHER /Muriel Barrett -- 11 THE CHILDREN ACT 1989: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE FAMILY AND THE SCHOOL /Caroline Lindsey -- 12 ISSUES FOR TRAINING /Emilia Dowling and Elsie Osborne -- Bibliography -- Name index -- Subject index.