Abstract
This paper explores the nature and function of the community psychological clinic, constructing on the experience which a clinical psychologist had while working in a center in midtown of a large city. It presents a practical service-oriented program which is, at the same time, dependent for its success on a fruitful interaction between learning and doing, between the skills that the clinical person brings to the community and the ever-changing needs of the neighbourhood. To be effective the community psychological clinic appears to be the sort which must continue to function as a research-oriented clinic, trying to add to its knowledge an understanding of the changing needs of the community, its families and its members, along with the services offered to the community. The need is also one where the service must be evaluated in terms of the impact that it makes upon the child, his family, and the neighbourhood.
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