References
- Martin , Wolins , ed. 1974 . Successful Group Care , 133 Chicago : Aldine Publishing Company .
- Spitz Rene A. , “Hospitalism” , Successful Group Care , ed. Ibid.
- John , Bowlby . 1951 . Maternal Care and Mental Health , Geneva : World Health Organization .
- Spitz , loc. cit.
- Bowlby , loc. cit.
- Martin Wolins , “Political Orientation, Social Reality, and Child Welfare” , ibid., pp. 71 – 38 .
- ibid.
- The research setting did not furnish the opportunity to utilize an experimental-control design. This would have required not only the random assignment of cases (in place of assignment by agency worker) to the three programmes but also the establishment of a fourth no-service control group. Since some of the children were already in care at the time the study began it was not possible to randomly assign cases to agency programmes. Perhaps even more importantly, the random assignment of cases as well as a noservice control group ran counter to the agency's conception of ethical practice. Resistance to research which makes these more stringent demands on an agency is well known and widespread not only in social work but in many other fields of human services as well. In the absence of a more rigorous type of design it was necessary to identify and control for variables other than the programmes of care which might account for possible differences in movement, such as variations among the programmes in the characteristics of children and families or their beginning level of functioning.
- Geismar , Ludwig . 1971 . Family and Community Functioning , New Jersey : The Scarecrow Press, Inc. . Useful and accessible references for Australian readers are to be found in—Leonard Tierney Measuring Family Functioning; the contribution of Ludwig Geismar Aust Jnl Social Work Aust Social Work Vol 29 No 2 June 1976 p 3
- This procedure was developed by Geismar for measuring family functioning and includes guidelines for developing profiles as well as criteria for rating. This instrument was modified for use in obtaining measures of the child's social functioning. For a more detailed description of the Family Functioning Scale see Ludwig Geismar, Family and Community Functioning.
- ibid.
- The remaining scale points are as follows: “2”—Near Adequate; “3”—Below Marginal; “5”—Above Marginal; “6”—Near Adequate.
- One of these is Sherman Edmund A. and others, Service to Children in their Own Homes; Its Nature and Outcome , Child Welfare League of America, Inc. , 1973 .
- A Second Chance for Families ; Evaluation of a Program to Reduce Foster Care, Research Center, Child Welfare League of America, Inc. , N.Y. , N.Y. January , 1976 .