The Client's Social Context: Its Effect on Continuance in Treatment

Shyne Ann W. , “What Research Tells Us About Short-Term Cases in Family Agencies,” Social Casework, Vol. XXXVIII, May 1957, p. 224. Similar findings are reported in a study carried out by the Community Service Society of New York; see Leonard S. Kogan, “The Short-Term Case in a Family Agency. Part II. Results of Study,” Social Casework, Vol. XXXVIII, June 1957, pp. 296–302.

Beck Dorothy Fahs , Patterns in Use of Family Agency Service, Family Service Association of America, New York, 1962, p. 24.

Garfield Sol L. , and Kurz Max , “Evaluation of Treatment and Related Procedures in 1,216 Cases Referred to a Mental Hygiene Clinic,” Psychiatric Quarterly, Vol. XXVI, July 1952, pp. 414–24.

Ostrower Roland , “Agency Structure, Statistics, and Casework Practice,” Social Casework, Vol XLII, April 1961, pp. 176–80.

The following contain useful summaries of research as well as many references to specific studies- Frank Jerome D. and others, “Why Patients Leave Psychotherapy,” Archives of Neurology and Psychiatry Vol. LXXVII, March 1957, pp. 283–99; George Levinger, “Continuance in Casework and Other Helping Relationships: A Review of Current Research,” Social Work, Vol. V, July 1960, pp. 40–51; Jona M. Rosenfield, “Strangeness Between Helper and Client: A Possible Explanation of Non-Use of Available Professional Help,” Social Service Review, Vol. XXXVIII, March 1964, pp. 17–25; Shyne, op. cit., pp. 223–31.

See Rosenblatt Aaron , “The Application of Role Concepts to the Intake Process,” Social Casework, Vol. XLIII, January 1962, pp. 8–14.

Dohrenwend Bruce P. , Bernard Viola W. , and Kolb Lawrence C. , “The Orientations of Leaders in an Urban Area Toward Problems of Mental Illness,” American Journal of Psychiatry, Vol. CXVIII, February 1962, pp. 683–91; Gerald Gurin, Joseph Veroff, and Sheila Feld, Americans View Their Mental Health, Basic Books, New York, 1960; August B. Hollingshead and Frederick C. Redlich, Social Class and Mental Illness: A Community Study, John Wiley & Co., New York, 1958; Philip Lichtenberg, Robert Kohrman, and Helen Macgregor, Motivation for Child Psychiatry Treatment, Russell & Russell, New York, 1960; David Mechanic, “Some Factors in Identifying and Defining Mental Illness,” Mental Hygiene, Vol. XLVI, January 1962, pp. 66–74; Leo Srole and others, Mental Health in the Metropolis: The Midtown Manhattan Study, McGraw-Hill Book Co., New York, 1962.

Gurin , Veroff , and Feld , op. cit., p. 286.

For ways in which social scientists typically conceive of the social environment, as well as for ways in which they have neglected it, see Merton Robert K. , “The Social-Cultural Environment and Anomie,” in New Perspectives for Research on Juvenile Delinquency, Witmer Helen L. , and Kotinsky Ruth (eds.), Children's Bureau, Social Security Administration, U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Washington, D.C., 1956, pp. 24–27.

Gurin , Veroff , and Feld , op. cit., Chapter 13.

Kogan , op. cit., and Lilian Ripple and Ernestina Alexander, “Motivation, Capacity, and Opportunity As Related to the Use of Casework Service: Nature of Client's Problem,” Social Service Review, Vol. XXX, March 1956, pp. 38–54.

See Schofield William , Psychotherapy: The Purchase of Friendship, Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1964; Frank Riessman, The Revolution in Social Work: The New Nonprofessional, Mobilization for Youth, New York, 1963.

See Gurin , Veroff , and Feld , op. cit., Chapter 13; see also Margaret B. Bailey, “Community Orientation Toward Social Casework,” Social Work, Vol. IV, July 1959, pp. 60–66.

Levinger , op. cit., p. 44.

Ripple Lilian , “Factors Associated With Continuance in Casework Service,” Social Work, Vol. II, January 1957, pp. 87–94.

Kadushin Charles , “Social Distance Between Client and Professional,” American Journal of Sociology, Vol. LXVII, March 1962, p. 530.

Lichtenberg , Kohrman, and Macgregor, op. cit.

Lichtenberg , Kohrman, and Macgregor, op. cit., p. 79.

For examples of various kinds of “splits” among relevant others, see Mayer John E. , Jewish-Gentile Courtships, Free Press of Glencoe, New York, 1961, Chapter 10.

Case material illustrating motivations of this nature can be found in Lester H. Gliedman and others, “Incentives for Treatment Related to Remaining or Improving in Psychotherapy,” American Journal of Psychotherapy, Vol. XI, July 1957, pp. 589–98.