What Do Children Come to the Psychological Clinic for? 1The writer recently gave a radio lecture on this subject and as a result became interested in a definite and factual answer to the question. The content of this article, however, is not the content of the radio lecture. In a subsequent paper it is planned to examine older clinic records in order to see what changes have taken place.

answer to the question why children come to the Psychological Clinic would seem to be of some significance in this connection. The present paper attempts to answer this question by an examination of clinical records of one year (1929) in the Psychological Clinic of the University of Pennsylvania. A study of these cases will be of value as an indication of the status of clinical psychology in a large urban community well equipped with different agencies for handling various problems of individual and social welfare. We are, moreover, dealing here with a long established clinic having a well developed technique for the examination and general treatment of