Families in Society: The Journal of Contemporary Social Services

The biopsychosocial consequences of acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) particularly affect gay patients both in the community and in hospitals. This article describes a crisis intervention program and uses a case example to show the clinical phases of AIDS as well as the program's intervention strategies and case advocacy.

This article describes and contrasts the disorders, adding psychodynamic and developmental theory as presented by Kohut, Kernberg, Mahler, Masterson, and others. Treatment techniques are presented and illustrations are drawn from the biography and poetry of Sylvia Plath.

A study analyzed the relationships between parental stress and the adjustment of children following the divorce process. The results support the need for preventive approaches and for extensive outreach to make a wide variety of programs available to divorcing persons.

Her The Rural Community and Social Case Work, published more than fifty years ago, is little known today. Yet in perceptiveness, practicality, and breadth of view, it continues to be highly relevant. Rural social work owes a lasting debt to a woman too quickly forgotten.

Should the sibling of a retarded person be regarded by the practitioner as one who is at-risk or one whose developmental tasks are simply different? A comparative analysis of five articles in a neglected area sheds light on these questions and outlines the need for research.