As part of the BBC season marking the Year of the Family, QED returns to the [text removed], subject of last year's A Family Game. Amanda and Clive [text removed]'s lives were dominated by the constant temper tantrums of their 5-year-old son [text removed], and the film followed the family through a pioneering course of therapy at the Maudsley Psychiatric Hospital in London.

Psychological disturbances in Amanda's own life were discovered, and so one concern of this follow-up programme is to discover whether she has come to terms with her past, as well as to report on the progress of the Maudsley experiment.

The film also considers the implications for families who may well be less capable than the [text removed] of taking steps to tackle the problem of overbearingly disruptive children.

Booklet and Video: a BBC booklet exploring further some of the issues raised in this programme is available priced £2.50 from: [address removed].
A video recording of this programme is available; for details telephone [number removed]
The taming of 6-year-old [text removed]
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