"The purpose of this study was to determine the distribution of personal characteristics and intrafamilial relationships of eighteen Negro and fifteen white schizophrenic patients treated on Psychotic Clinic at the University of Alabama Medical School. After the distribution of the selected characteristics according to racial membership was known, a second division of early or chronic institutionalism and noninstitutionalism was constructed to determine if the original intragroup distribution was applicable regardless of the individual's capacity for self-maintenance in the community"--Introduction. / Typescript. / "June, 1960." / "Submitted to the Graduate School of Florida State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Social Work." / Advisor: Vernon Fox, Professor Directing Study. / Handwritten note on title page corrects "Kaye" to "Kathryne." / Includes bibliographical references.

"The Clinic's interest in the problem of withdrawals led to the development of this study. The purpose was to attempt to discern some of the possible factors pertaining to the failure of forty-eight patients to return to the Clinic following the evaluation interview and offer of treatment. It was believed that an analysis of certain data obtained from the case records of the Clinic through use of a case reading schedule of eleven items and follow-up interviews with a group of twenty patients who did not return to the Clinic for the recommended treatment, would give some indication of the possible factors involved. An analysis of these data may lead to more knowledge of some of the factors involved when patients fail to return and will aid the Clinic in ascertaining whether the loss of patients was due to procedures within the agency setting, factors within the patient and his environment, or perhaps a combination of both"--Introduction. / Typescript. / "June, 1961." / "Submitted to the Graduate School of Florida State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Social Work." / Advisor: Helen M. Manahan, Professor Directing Study. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 73-75).