| Sumario: | The integration of research findings and casework techniques is a task of considerable complexity and importance in clinical practice. This article shows how research findings concerning the mothers of children with learning problems helped to focus the treatment on certain aspects of a mother-child interaction and how the casework experience, in turn, elaborated and expanded the research findings. A specific case was presented to illustrate the role of maternal secrecy and derogation in the inhibition of a child's learning. It was possible to look beyond the research sampling of such attitudes and to specify the cognitive deficits that needed to be remedied in the mother's relationship to the son. When casework treatment was directed toward remedying maternal difficulties and alleviating anxieties connected with functioning, the mother showed marked improvement in providing a beneficial learning environment for her son and for her other children.
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