This thesis is designed to describe a project in group therapy with boys between the ages of twelve and fourteen years who were known by psychiatrists as "withdrawn" children. The project was undertaken as an experiment. Since there were many indications of positive results, the project was also to be used for the purpose of demonstrating group therapy with this particular group of boys. [...]

This study at the Allan Memorial Institute of Psychiatry was undertaken to find out what had been accomplished with those cases in which social reception had taken place. Social reception is the process of helping the patient to accept his hospitalization, of relieving his fears and threats to his status in the community, of allowing him to respond to the therapeutic potentialities of living experienced under psychiatric supervision and direction. [...]

On this continent, year in and year out, thousands of children are placed outside their own homes and family situations. In fact, the problem of child placement has become increasingly important in the field of social work. Prior to this century, child placement in Canada and the United States was not considered to involve complex femily and individual interrelationships. [...]

This study is concerned with a group of twenty husbands and wives of psychiatric in-patients who have come into contact with the social service department of the Allan Memorial Institute of Psychiatry, in Montreal. [...]

Follow-up implies a renewal of contact for the purpose of further study; a scientific method used for testing theoretical formulations. In the many social sciences dealing with human beings, the hypotheses concerning cause and effect of human behaviour are continually changing. These hypotheses must be tested if progress is to be expected in the understanding, prediction and control of illness and maladjustment. [...]

Tuberoulosis as a disease has many characteristics which are common to most of the ills to which human beings are subject. There are, however, certain characteristics that are peculiar to tuberculosis with the potentiality of exerting damaging influence upon human personality. It must be conceded that in any attempt to understand the behaviour of tuberculous patients, it is unavoidable to give consideration to the emotional and psychic components of tuberculosis. [...]

Children are an essential part of every human society. The community, large or small, depends for its future leadership, indeed for its very existence, on that portion of its population who are children. During the period of their immaturity, however, these children are dependent upon the adults in the population for meeting their basic needs. [...]

Adolescence is a subject that has been written about widely in the past four decades. Psychologists, educators, medical men, sociologists, anthropologists, and social workers have concerned themselves with the phenomenon that makes the twelve to twenty-one year old an enigma to his family and the community at large. [...]

The subject of this study is the role of Travelers Aid Society (1) in relation to the runaway child. Since it is not possible to evaluate any service to children without also considering them in relation to their enviromnent, T .A. service to the families of runaways must be considered as an integral part of this study. [...]

In modern society the care and rehabilitation of the crippled and disabled is one of the primary problems of human welfare. With advances in the medical sciences, has come the knowledge that many conditions, previously considered untreatable, can be improved by adequate treatment, and that individuals suffering from physical handicaps can be helped to self-sufficiency, and enabled to live useful, productive lives in the community. [...]