Part of a series documenting annual research and activity in the field of social work. It is a record of organized efforts in the United States to deal with social problems and social conditions. Topics include adult education, health, mental hygiene, crime and penal conditions, children, community organization, the disabled, and religious social work.

Fred S. Hall was joint author of American Marriage Laws.

Social Science and Psychotherapy for Children was a study undertaken jointly by the Russell Sage Foundation and the Jewish Board of Guardians under direction of Dr. Otto Pollak, a faculty member of the University of Pennsylvania, who was made available by the foundation as social science consultant to the Board’s Child Guidance Institute. With many specific cases as illustrations, Dr. Pollak and his collaborators show ways in which the social sciences may enrich child therapy. They examine the implications of family structure, social interaction, anxiety, extra-familial influences, culture conflicts, and age-sex factors. They also consider the effective use of volunteers in treatment and the occasional necessity for setting limited treatment goals.

Collaborators: Bertram J. Black, Dorothy Dunaeff, Yonata Feldman, Bernice Wolf Frechtman, Maurice R. Friend, Lia Knoepfmacher, Bettina Lehnert, Frederika Neumann, S. R. Slavson

Part of the Industrial Relations Series, a series by the Department of Industrial Studies of the Russell Sage Foundation investigating early twentieth-century experiments in the organization of relations between employers and employees in industrial enterprises in the United States. It examines the plan for employee representation of a mill in Wappingers Falls, New York, and the relationship between workers and management.

Ben M. Selekman, Department of Industrial Studies, Russell Sage Foundation

This 1951 monograph presents the results of study and experiment of Illinois corrections, designed to bring about the best results in the selection of candidates for parole. It aimed to improve the conditions of parole selection and develop a parole system as a release procedure.

Lloyd E. Ohlin was research sociologist, Illinois Division of Correction.

This 1961 book presents the findings of an empirical study that explored the attitudes and behaviors of patients who had experience with more than one way of organizing medical practice, and thereby sought to suggest some of the ways in which both lay and professional social structure figure in the utilization of medical care. The data are used to derive a tentative conceptual framework that takes account of structural as well as cultural factors in understanding the behavior of doctors and patients. The net result is a set of ideas that suggest the nature of the medical system that lies outside the walls of the hospitals, in direct contact with the community.

Eliot Freidson, New York University, and Montefiore Hospital

A report on the proceedings of the second National Service Conference, held April 2-4, 1967, in Washington, regarding the pros and cons of using national service to address a range of national problems, including improved health and education, the War on Poverty, and related challenges.

Contributors: Charles S. Benson, Roland M. Bixler, Jacob Clayman, Eli Ginzberg, Curtis Aller, Roger W. Little, Leon Bramson, Reed Martin, Mildred Robbins, Michael B. Katz, Dorothy M. Knoell, Leon M. Lessinger, Hyman Frankel, A. P. Angelides, Sydney Howe, Ruth Hagy Brod, Harold Taylor, John Naisbitt, Richard Graham, Al Carp, Jack Howard, David Squire, Donald Brown, Felix Rimberg, Dennis J. Clark, Homer Hagedorn, William Josephson, H. Donald Wilson, Terrence Cullinan, William A. Delano, Joshua L. Miner, Dyke W. Williams, David Dichter, Edward F. Hall, Robert Bird

Donald J. Eberly was National Service Secretariat.

This 1946 volume examines the systematic application of music as a means of occupational therapy and of recreation in hospitals in the first half of the twentieth century, particularly those for mental and nervous diseases. It stresses the need for professional collaboration between hospital workers and musician and presents a plan for integration of a music program into the hospital service.

Willem van de Wall was head of the Adult Education Section, Education Branch, Internal Affairs and Communications Division, Office of Military Government for Germany, United States.

A 1966 review of major problems, issues, and developments in the field of juvenile delinquency in the United States. It was written at the request of John W. Gardner, Secretary of the United States Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, to provide a review of the field of delinquency which might be useful to the department in its planning. With the assistance of Anne Romasco.

The work which this book describes had its beginning in the year 1949 when the Russell Sage Foundation and the Jewish Board of Guardians entered into an agreement to conduct a joint project to explore whether cooperation between social scientists and clinicians in child guidance practice could prove to be of mutual benefit. Specifically, it aimed to investigate the contribution potential of the existing funds of social science knowledge to child guidance practice, as well as the research needs encountered by child guidance workers which could be met by social scientists.

Otto Pollack, Child Guidance Institute of the Jewish Board of Guardians

This 1937 report has to do with people in the Appalachian Mountain region whose chief concern with handicrafts was the income they would bring, as they offered the only means by which to earn money. One purpose was to show how indispensable handicrafts were in the economy of countless families throughout the region; a second was to show the other rewards handicrafts brought to these same people, what they added to the social and recreational life for the communities in which they carried on, their educational and cultural significance, the esthetic enjoyment they fostered, their help in the field of therapeutics, and the sense of emotional security they gave. Containing fifty-eight illustrations form photographs taken for the work by Doris Ulmann.

Allen H. Eaton was the author of Immigrant Gifts to American Life and part of the Department of Surveys of the Russell Sage Foundation.