The aim of this research was to enhance existing knowledge about the runaway child in order that guidelines for future preventive work be considered.The study was conducted at the Children's Service Centre, Montreal, and covered the period from June ,30,…

This is a study of adoptions completed through The Children's Service Centre of Montreal, to determine by personal interview with 22 adoptive parents how successful they feel their adoption has been, after having had the 25 children in their homes…

As a student, citizen and practitioner of community organization, the writer has had many opportunities to work with committees of varying kinds for different purposes. Some of these experiences have been pleasant, others have been arduous, a few have been…

Pascal's reflection on the chance element in the selection of a career seems to be increasingly applicable to this century in which, paradoxically enough, intellectual activity is geared more than ever before to maximum elimination of the chance element in…

The use of authority in casework often presents a problem for the social work practitioner because of the great emphasis in the profession on client self determination. At times, a discrepancy arises between this principle and what is therapeutically indicated…

In the past twenty years there has probably been less written on the subject of nervousness than on any other common complaint. To the best of this writer’s knowledge, there has been no recent text devoted to a thorough examination…

The study is an inquiry into a group of 25 adolescent adopted children who have been in their adoptive homes for at least ten years. It attempts to derive limited knowledge and tentative conclusions pertaining to the way in which…

This thesis is designed to explore the social casework practiced with a group of twenty-four children aged ten to twelve years referred to a Child Guidance Clinic and with their families. The main purpose is to reveal the most effective…

This study is undertaken to explore the values which 110 mothers of varying religious and socio-economic backgrounds assign toward child behaviour and care. Of these mothers 78 participated in Child Study Groups sponsored by the Parent Education Department of the…