The essential distinguishing characteristic of the specialty of clinical child psychology is the consistent application of the developmental stage contingency principle by its practitioners as they interpret their data. The need for more rapid and extensive incorporation of recently-derived developmental concepts into contemporary practice and research in clinical child psychology is stressed.
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