For discussion of the role of casework in agencies specializing in work with blind persons, seeMaloneyElizabeth M., “The Special Contribution of the Social Caseworker in an Agency for the Blind,”The New Outlook for the Blind, Vol. 46, No. 9 (November 1952); Maloney, “Social Casework Approach to the Visually Handicapped Client,” The New Outlook for the Blind, Vol. 50, No. 4 (April 1956); and Florence C. Starr, “The Role of the Social Service Department in an Agency for the Blind,” The Jewish Social Service Quarterly, Vol. 29, No. 2 (Winter 1952).
2.
HamiltonGordon, Theory and Practice of Social Case Work (2d Ed., revised; New York: Columbia University Press, 1951), pp. 40, 41, and 44.
3.
PerlmanHelen Harris, Social Casework: A Problem-solving Process (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1957), p. 60.
4.
WrightBeatrice A., Physical Disability—A Psychological Approach (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1960), p. 345.
5.
Starr, op. cit., p. 222.
6.
ChevignyHector, My Eyes Have a Cold Nose (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1946), p. 101 ff.
7.
BarkerRoger G., “The Social Psychology of Physical Disability,”Journal of Social Issues, Vol. 4, No. 4 (Fall 1948), p. 37.
8.
Wright, op. cit., p. 338.
9.
LowryFern, “Basic Assumptions Underlying Casework with Blind Persons,” in FinestoneSamuel, ed., Social Casework and Blindness (New York: American Foundation for the Blind, 1960), pp. 16–17.
10.
Wright, op. cit., pp. 347, 348.
11.
Wright, op. cit., p. 92.
12.
LeShanLawrence L., “Changing Trends in Psychoanalytically Oriented Psychotherapy,”Mental Hygiene, Vol. 46, No. 3 (July 1962), p. 459.
13.
For discussion of these attitudes seeBravermanSydell, “The Psychological Roots of Attitudes Toward the Blind,”The New Outlook for the Blind, Vol. 45, No. 6 (June 1951); Chevigny, op. cit. (attitudes are described and discussed throughout the book); Thomas D. Cutsforth, “Personality Crippling Through Physical Disability,” Journal of Social Issues, Vol. 4, No. 4 (Fall 1958); Irving Lukoff, “A Sociological Appraisal of Blindness,” in Finestone, op. cit.; and Wright, op. cit., especially Chapter 2.
