This research project studies 100 children in the care of the Children's Service Centre of Montreal, who were moved from one foster home to another within a six months survey period, April 1 to September 30, 1954. It is focused on the frequency and causes of movement. It is an attempt to determine why these children were moved and whether some of the moves could have been prevented. Agency records on the child and foster home were used as the source data. The study opens with a discussion on the literature in child care, which provides a theoretical base for the project.

This research is an examination of the social relationships of sixty-one women, who were clients of the Unattached Women s Department of the Family Welfare Association in February, 1954. The sample group was characterized by being mainly physically handicapped women, mostly between the ages of fifty and sixty four, for the most part single or widowed, and the majority born in Montreal or residing here twenty five years or more. Information was obtained largely from the files of the Family Welfare Association.

Progressively through the years, women have made significant strides towards equality with men, in opportunity, role, status and function. These advances have induced changes in the role concept of women, as perceived by society and by women themselves. Whereas women were formerly expected to limit their outlook to immediate family affairs, they are now encouraged to develop talents, express opinions and enter into planning and activities outside the home, often in occupations and fields conventionally dominated by men.

In the practice of Group Work, the aim is to fit recreation to individuals and groups in the specific situation. In addition to constants, such as the need for security and growth, variables and differentials must be considered. This thesis is a study of the membership of the Rosemount Boys' Club, in Montreal, during the first sixteen months of the agency's operation, ending in July, 1950, 1n relation to the community in which the Club is located. The aim is to show what the work of the agency should be in relation to the needs of its members, as revealed by this study.

The family as a unit of society has undergone vast changes over the past 150 years. Indeed, so great have been these changes that much effort has been made to clarify the present function of the family and much speculation has been voiced as to its future. The beginning of the 19th century saw the family on this continent as an almost self-sufficient social and economic unit. Gradually, however, its many functions were taken over by other institutions; education by the school, religious guidance by the church, the manufacture of personal and household goods by the factories, recreation by the community centres. What, then, has been left to the family? Where does it stand in the social order of today?

In 1947 the Case Work Section of The Montreal Council of Social Agencies held a panel discussion on "The care and Treatment of the Emotionally Disturbed Child". However, at this time it was felt that the total problem in the community should be further studied and understood before the need for more adequate treatment resources could be established. In 1949, at a meeting of the Case Work Section the first attempt at implementation of this proposal, was effected. A committee was set up to study this problem, and to acquaint the community with what an adequate programme of mental health should contain to meet the needs of the emotionally disturbed child.

This thesis concerns the social welfare aspects of town planning and the implications these have for collaboration between social workers and town planners. The thesis contends that social work can be of assistance to the town planner on questions of social policy and on methods and techniques of town and community planning. The writer examines three phases of town planning: survey, development plan and program, and seeks to determine the relationship of social work practice in community agencies and in the town planning team to planning practice in each of the three phases.

This thesis analyses the 465 completed questionnaires of a 1958 newspaper mail survey or Canadian women living with their husbands. Of the 12 items on the questionnaire, the first 8 enlisted information relevant to the respondent's age, husband's age, duration of the marriage, previous marriage if any, number of children, length of acquaintance prior to the marriage, husband's occupation, and wife's occupation if she was working outside the home. The remaining 4 items requested the respondent to state the qualities she liked most in her husband, those she disliked most, whether she would marry him again, and, finally, to state reasons why she would or would not.

This is a study of the Social Service Department of the Allan Memorial lnstitute of Psychiatry which is a division of the Royal Victoria Hospital, Montreal. The focus is primarily on two aspects of the function of this department-- treatment of patients and/or relatives, and discharge planning with patients and/or relatives. lt is the hope of the researchers that the study should be useful to others in the field.

The purpose of this social work research project is to inquire into the life situations and personal adjustment patterns of a group of eighteen elderly Jewish men and women who have immigrated to Canada during their adult life. In approaching the study the writers will attempt to evaluate the life functioning of these patients from a three-dimensional focus. They will evaluate the patient as a physical organism, as a group member in society, and as a personality within a culture, and attempt to explore the interactions between these three areas of functioning.