| Sumario: | Part of a special section on the importance of incorporating developmental theory into clinical child training. The writers examine the degree to which clinical child programs incorporate and integrate developmental theory into their training, and they introduce the contributions of six leaders in the field to this special section. They report that their survey investigated 51 clinical child doctoral programs and demonstrated that three types of training programs are operating: child emphasis, clinical child, and developmental-clinical programs. They contend that their results reveal that clinical child programs have become increasingly differentiated and specialized over the past 20 years but that, with the exception of developmental-clinical programs, most programs are still neglecting to incorporate developmental theory into training. They discuss this issue along with concerns about the future direction of clinical child doctoral training.
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