procedures

• 1. on arrival to the clinic, each child was given mental tests by a psychologist to assess their own intelligence using the Binet scale
• 2) the emotional attitude of the child was also recorded by the psychologist
• 3) the child's mother was then interviewed by a social worker and details of the child's early psychiactric history was recorded
• 4) both the psychologist and social worker presented separate reports to Bowlby, who then interviewed the child and mother himself for two hours
• 5) the team then all met to consider school and other reports and discussed their conclusions
• 6) many of the children continued to meet with Bowlby over a period of 6 months or more and the mothers discussed any ongoing problems with the social worker.