Differential attitudes of Black and White patients toward treatment in a child guidance clinic.

Abstract

Twenty white families and twenty black families were interviewed following completion of treatment in a child guidance clinic, to determine in what ways expectations and experience of treatment differed for two such groups matched for family composition, income, and child's age. Findings, consistent with earlier studies, suggest difficulties attendant to black patient-white therapist interaction, but differences between the black and white patient groups were less than had been previously postulated.