Client Disengagement and Alternative Treatment Resources

Mayer John E. , and Rosenblatt Aaron , “The Client's Social Context: Its Effect on Continuance in Treatment,” Social Casework, Vol. XLV, November 1964, pp. 511–18.

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

Robinson Reginald , DeMarche David F. , and Wagle Mildred K. , Community Resources in Mental Health, Basic Books, New York, 1960, p. 323.

Robinson Reginald , DeMarche David F. , and Wagle Mildred K. , Community Resources in Mental Health, Basic Books, New York, 1960, pp. 324–25.

Robinson Reginald , DeMarche David F. , and Wagle Mildred K. , Community Resources in Mental Health, Basic Books, New York, 1960, p. 325.

Kogan Leonard S. , “The Short-Term Case in a Family Agency, Part II, Results of Study,” Social Casework, Vol. XXXVIII, June 1957, pp. 296–302; Lilian Ripple, Motivation, Capacity, and Opportunity, Social Service Monographs, Second Series, University of Chicago, Chicago, 1964, pp. 196–97.

Hollingshead August B. , “Two Factor Index of Social Position,” (printed privately), New Haven, 1957.

Data analyzed by Beck similarly fail to reveal an inverse relationship between social class and client disengagement. Op. cit., p. 35.

For suggestive evidence that there is less stigma attached to utilizing psychiatric facilities in large cities, see Gurin Gerald , Veroff Joseph , and Feld Sheila , Americans View Their Mental Health, New York, Basic Books, 1960, pp. 385–86.