Ecological comparisons were made between the caseload of a Northern Clinic (NC) and a Southern Clinic (SC) with reference to sex of child, race, occupation of parent, residence area, religion, number of children in family, and reason for referral. The sample consisted of 400 families seen in the SC. The results indicated that the 2 clinics serve somewhat different populations. The NC serves mainly white, middle to high socioeconomic groups, the SC serves whites of middle to low groups, the clientele being more representative of the 3 different religions than that of the NC. The predominant symptom in NC was aggressive behavior; in the SC, nonaggressive behavior. Only few similarities were noted: both clinics showed over-representation of boys, and under representation of single child families and of Negroes. It was concluded that the SC did not follow the expected upper-middle class patterns of service reported in the literature, and actually found in the caseload of the NC. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved)