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Thesis (M.S.)--Boston University

Thesis (M.S.)--Boston University / The intent of this paper is to study by case analysis and follow-up interviews how social workers approached the treatment of six patients who applied to Briggs Clinic in 1950. Their cases were closed as improved but they later returned to the clinic for further treatment. The similarities and differences in the initial and subsequent treatment periods shall be considered, The follow-up interviews were structured to determine what the patients themselves thought of the treatment they had received.

Thesis (M.S.)--Boston University / This was an exploratory study of factors related to unplanned termination of treatment. The cases of ten women who had been in casework at the Massachusetts Memorial Hospitals' Psychiatric Social Service Department and who had withdrawn from casework after five or more interviews were studied by examination of the records and by an interview with each subject. The following areas were investigated: the worker client relationship, the personal attributes of the client, the current environment, and the attitude of a significant person toward treatment. Analysis of the data indicated that the majority of discontinuers had not felt helped by their casework contact; that there had been some confusion for all subjects in one of the following areas: treatment goals, worker's role, or treatment plans; that important situational changes in the subject's environment around the time of discontinuance appeared to be directly related discontinuance,; that subjects tended to have more interests and activities at the time of discontinuance than they had at the beginning of treatment; and, that the attitude of a significant person toward treatment was positive more frequently around the time treatment began that it was around the time of discontinuance. It appeared that the factors examined may well influence a client's continuance in treatment.

Thesis (M.S.)--Boston University

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Boston University / A study of the history of the idea of State-sponsored popular education to mold common loyalties and values in the interest of national unity. The study finds that this idea has implied rivalry with competing sources of meaning, including traditional religion. This rivalry has taken the form not only of excluding "sectarian" teaching from the common school, but also of seeking to provide its equivalent: a "common faith". In so doing, it has led repeatedly to conflict with parents who do not accept the values and beliefs inculcated by the State and its educationists. The first attempt, by the French Jacobins in 1792, to implement this "common school agenda" in an antireligious form was a failure because of the resistance of parents, but their Dutch allies were more successful implementing common schools saturated with lowest-common-denominator religious and moral teaching. It was Dutch "common school religion" that inspired French and American reformers in the 1830's in the creation of State-sponsored common schools. Implementation of the common school program in Massachusetts encountered resistance from orthodox Protestants as well as Catholics to what they rightly perceived as its religious content, but Protestant leadership closed ranks around the common school when faced by the threat of cultural diversity as a result of Catholic immigration. The final chapter describes the "triumph of the common school" in France and the United States, but its defeat in the Netherlands, where orthodox Protestants and Catholics gained full tax support for confessional schools. The continuing conflict over popular education raises troubling questions in a democracy. How can the pluralism that we claim to value, the liberty that we prize, be reconciled with a "State pedagogy" designed to serve State purposes? Can government somehow assure that every child is educated in the essentials required by the social, political and economic order, without seeking to impose uniformity?

Thesis (M.S.)--Boston University

Thesis (M.S.)--Boston University