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Many patients experience difficulty in managing aspects of their young children's behaviour; and yet personnel with the psychological skills to resolve these problems are only available to a small proportion of parents, usually after a period of serious escalation of the difficulties. This article describes an attempt to make economical use of an educational psychologist's time by providing a short course for a volunteer group of mothers whose children attended a pre-school group. The educational orientation of the centre is shown to facilitate the transmission of the required skills and knowledge to the mothers, suggesting both a desirable form of organization for such centres and a specific activity which could profitably take place within them.
Many patients experience difficulty in managing aspects of their young children's behaviour; and yet personnel with the psychological skills to resolve these problems are only available to a small proportion of parents, usually after a period of serious escalation of the difficulties. This article describes an attempt to make economical use of an educational psychologist's time by providing a short course for a volunteer group of mothers whose children attended a pre-school group. The educational orientation of the centre is shown to facilitate the transmission of the required skills and knowledge to the mothers, suggesting both a desirable form of organization for such centres and a specific activity which could profitably take place within them.