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11 public health specialists, work on a number of funded projects to improve drug and alcohol awareness and prevention concerns among parents and youth. They work through a special health unit at Lexington High School and through health educators at the middle and elementary schools. HPAC also works on preventing bullying and harassment and related improvements in interpersonal relations among students. 4. THE INDIVIDUAL PROFESSIONAL PROVIDERS Most of the service providers in our sample work with 15 or more clients a year. See Appendix A. All but a very few of them practice alone and are not part of an agency or group of colleagues. Adults and married couples are the clients of concern to 59 percent of the providers, while 15 percent serve children and 26 percent serve youth. All of the providers serve white clients, but many of them have a multiethnic clientele as well. Most of them treat more than one type of problem, of course. The providers include clinical psychologists who specialize in psychological diagnoses (25 percent). Many of the counselors and therapists work on neuroses and general anxiety disorders (31 percent) while a smaller proportion focus on eating and sleep disorders (16 percent). Marital and parenting problems are primary challenges for 30 percent of the providers. We asked each provider to give us a case illustration of how they go about their work as solo practitioners. The responses varied greatly, of course. Some typical illustrations included the following: • A two hour psycho-educational testing and diagnostic session. • Talking therapy, with time given to listening to what the client is in pain about, for instance, grieving over a father’s death. • Mine is a psychoanalytic approach, with an emphasis on emotional, affective life. • Providing psychotherapy for a seven year old who was having difficulty with the aftermath of a parental divorce.