"The purpose of this study was to examine social service release planning for 40 white female mental patients and the adjustment of these patients at the end of one year following their release from the hospital. This study includes an analysis of those factors which seem to promote adjustment and those factors which necessitate the patient's return to the hospital"--Introduction. / Typescript. / "June, 1959." / "Submitted to the Graduate School of Florida State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Social Work." / Advisor: Douglass Brown, Professor Directing Study. / Includes bibliographical references.