A Follow-up Study of Former Clients: An Example of Practitioner-Directed Research

Range and Emphases of a Family Service Program, Family Service Association of America, New York, 1963, p. 25.

Moss Miriam S. , and Einstein Gertrude , “A Limited Research Program in a Family Agency,” Social Casework, Vol. XLIII, February 1962, pp. 79–85.

Wasser Edna , “The Caseworker as Research Interviewer in Follow-up Studies,” Social Casework, Vol. XXXVIII, October 1957, pp. 423–30.

Blenkner Margaret , Obstacles to Evaluative Research in Casework, Family Service Association of America, New York, 1950.

Herzog Elizabeth , Some Guide Lines for Evaluative Research, Children's Bureau, Social Security Administration, U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C., 1959, p. 48.

For the general outline of many of the categories, see Shyne Ann W. , LeMat Aline F. , and Kogan Leonard S. , Serving the Maternity Patient through Family-Centered Public Health Nursing, Department of Public Affairs and Institute of Welfare Research, Community Service Society of New York, New York, 1962.

McVicker Hunt J. , and Kogan Leonard S. , Measuring Results in Social Casework: A Manual on Judging Movement, Family Service Association of America, New York, 1950; Blenkner, op. cit.; Ann W. Shyne, “Casework Research: Past and Present,” Social Casework, Vol. XLIII, November 1962, pp. 467–73; also Herzog, op. cit.

Hunt , and Kogan , op. cit., pp. 6–7.

For scaled statements, see Kogan Leonard S. , McVicker Hunt J. , and Bartelme Phyllis F. , A Follow-up Study of the Results of Social Casework, Family Service Association of America, New York, 1953.

The comparison is to the study, Who Comes to Family Service? United Community Services of Detroit, Detroit, Michigan, 1962. Social class was determined by a weighting of the education, occupation, and income of these families, using the rating system described by Dorothy Fahs Beck in Patterns in Use of Family Agency Service, Family Service Association of America, New York, 1962.

Siegel Natalie , Summary of Follow-Up Study, Family Service of Metropolitan Detroit, Detroit, Michigan, 1962.