When the psychologist serves Head Start, he must be a consultant to the whole Head Start organization, from top to bottom, director to children, and horizontally from potentially supportive agencies in the community to the Head Start staff, to the children and their parents. In the process of serving as a community psychologist, he will be called…

The stated purpose of this paper is to review some of the critical issues that arise in the planning and conduct of the evaluation of action programmes amongst the socially and educationally disadvantaged, and to suggest the means that might be adopted to overcome the inherent difficulties. The discussion first focuses on the characteristics of…