In recent years group work agencies and adult education bodies have become increasingly concerned about their inability to attract young adults between the ages of eighteen and twenty-five into their programs. Donald Bogue reports, in a study of the population of the United States, that while the numbers of young adults in the general population have decreased by five percent (5%), the numbers attending community centers have decreased by more than fifty percent (50%). [...]

The Report describes the development of an instrument to study the adjustment problems of foreign students living in an urban area of Montreal. The study, conducted by a second year Community Organization student, was sponsored by the Urban Social Redevelopment Project, which is concerned with social rehabilitation in that area. [...]

Community Development, the most recently defined branch of the Social Service discipline, has proved to be "the fastest and hence the most economical and effective approach for achieving extension goals" (1) in India.

[...] The original purpose of the study was to explore the relationship between social and economic factors and the decisions of the adolescents in ten familias receiving public assistance from the Montreal City Welfare Department to leave school early. However, it was not possible to obtain an English-speaking sample group of this size. The study was subsequently reformulated toward a dual purpose. Firstly, it was to draw tentative conclusions in relation to the data on the school dropout which the proposed research instrument yielded. These conclusions would be based upon a limited pre-test sample of three families. Secondly, the interview schedule was evaluated in terms of its potentialities for further research in this field of inquiry. [...]

This study is concerned with identifying those tasks best performed by non-professional personnel in the foster care division of the field of child welfare. The topic is directly related to the utilization of non-professional personnel in social work. [...]

This study describes selected social activities of residents living in a public housing project in Montreal, Canada. A closed-ended interview schedule was used to collect data. The range and frequency of the following measures of social activities are described: Social Participation, Neighboring Practices, Leisure Participation and Enjoyment, plus the use of Telephone, Television and Radio. [...]

The problem of the runaway foster child was investigated by comparing runaway and non-runaway foster children in relation to the number of problems they reported and the rejection they experienced. [...]

This project is concerned with describing the types of problems housemothers encounter and the methods they employ in solving these problems in a smll residential centre. Two hundred thirty four narrative descriptions of problems and interventions were collected from the housemothers. [...]

This study explored the impact of employment on the adjustment of college-educated mothers. It described, in cross-section, the degree of self-dissatisfaction and the amount of role conflict experienced by two groups of college-educated mothers - an employed group and a non-employed group. [...]

This thesis is concerned with a study or the relationship between the client's 'time' and 'activity' orientations and continuance and discontinuance in counselling after the intake interview at the Family Service Agency in Hamilton, Ontario. It was hypothesized that continuing clients would be 'future-active' or1entated, and discontinuing clients would be 'present-inactive' orientated. The 'time' and 'activity' orientations were struotured into six sub-topics; the client's view of the basie of his difficulty at intake, the service that he requests, his capacity to amass and use relevant faotual information, his capacity to admit the social worker to hia emotions, his confidence in the treatment plan and his trust in the social worker. [...]