child guidance

American  

noun

1. the reeducation, therapeutic treatment, or study of children with emotional and behavioral problems, conducted by psychologists, teachers, or other trained specialists.

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child guidance British  

noun

1. the counselling of emotionally disturbed children

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Etymology

Origin of child guidance

First recorded in 1925–30

Example Sentences

His mother, Betty, was a successful novelist; his father was a founder of Britain’s child guidance clinics.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 27, 2019

Weiss spoke English and, decamping to America, found a position as a child guidance associate at Columbia University in New York.

From Scientific American • Nov. 10, 2018

Out of thousands of mothers interviewed at an institute for child guidance, Dr. Levy chose 20 choice examples of overprotective mothers�nine overdominant, eleven overindulgent�for detailed study.

From Time Magazine Archive

Dignified, erudite Grace Abbott, 51, no mother, chief of the U. S. Children's Bureau, last week was particularly pleased to note that there were then 500 child guidance clinics in 350 different U. S. communities.

From Time Magazine Archive

She has studied neither the child nor her own powers of child guidance.

From Dickens As an Educator by Hughes, James L. (James Laughlin)