This study has a twofold purpose. The first is to determine the consequences related to labeling deviant behaviors, especially as these effects are reflected in the person who labels and defines deviant behavior. The second is to evaluate the medical model of abnormality in relation to the labeling of deviant behavior.

The purpose of this investigation is to determine some of the variables related to parents' stated reasons for institutionalizing mentally retarded males. The variables to be studied are the age, education, and income of the parents and the age, level of retardation, and number of siblings of the child.

This study is concerned with determining the relationship among functional educational level of groups, three types of reinforcement, and length of the study and with their resulting effects on schizophrenic performance.

M.P.H., Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, 2011

"The purpose of this study was to determine the significant differences between the responses of principal relatives of newly hospitalized male mental patients, to different form letters from the Social Service Department at The Bryce Hospital, Tuscaloosa, Alabama. These responses were dichotomized by: (1) the responses of the relatives who received the original Social Service form letter; and (2) the responses of the relatives who received the revised version of the aforementioned form letter, which was reconstructed by the author of this study to include the application of selected basic social casework principles to its content"--Introduction. / Typescript. / "August, 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: Howard Borsuk, Professor Directing Study. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 54-57).

"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).

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