"The purpose of the study was to indicate differences of significance in the incidences of professional action between patients diagnosed as organic brain syndromes and patients diagnosed as functional psychoses. The incidences of professional action were results of expediting the recommendations of the Neuropsychiatric Therapeutic Review Committee Veterans Administration Hospital, Lenwood Division, Augusta, Georgia, for the seventy-five patients of the study sample. The two groups of patients derived from the dichotomy of the study sample on the basis of psychiatric diagnosis: twenty-four patients had established psychiatric diagnoses of organic brain syndromes, and fifty-one patients had established psychiatric diagnoses within the range of functional psychoses. Difference of significance in the incidences of professional action between the two subsamples have been studied"--Introduction. / Typescript. / "August, 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: James H. Williams, Professor Directing Study. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 38-39).

"The purpose of this study was to attempt an appraisal of the contribution of Social Service activity toward trial visit movement over a three year period at the V.A. Neuro-Psychiatric Hospital, Augusta, Georgia. Preliminary exploration of such movement during the selected period had revealed an increase in the number of trial visits during the first six months of each year from 91 in 1954 to 202 in 1957. A corresponding increase was noted in the ratio of successful discharges from trial visit to rehospitalizations for the same period: from 37 discharged to 50 returned in 1954 to 142 discharged and 109 returned in 1957. The average daily number of patients on trial visit also increased from 80 to 225"--Introduction. / Typescript. / "June, 1959." / "Submitted to the Graduate Council of Florida State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Social Work." / Advisor: Howard W. Borsuk, Professor Directing Study. / Includes bibliographical references.

"The purpose of this study was to analyze the 'before' and 'after' distribution of data collected from the hospital records of thirty-seven neuropsychiatric patients who were evaluated by a special hospital committee. More specifically, the purpose was to determine whether there were any differences of significance in patient care and patient movement of thirty-seven patients residing on an open full-privileged ward four months prior to an evaluation by the Neuropsychiatric Therapeutic Review Committee and four months following the evaluation"--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: John T. Greene, Professor Directing Study. / Includes bibliographical references.