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

HEW contains an unlikely collection of agencies whose activities range all the way from operating a school for the blind to child guidance, from caring for social security to financing cancer research.

From Time Magazine Archive

To the U. S. praise was extended for its child guidance clinics.

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)