What Research Tells Us about Short-Term Cases in Family Agencies

Sidney Axelrad , John Frings , and Elizabeth Herzog , A Study of Short-Term Cases, Jewish Family Service, New York, 1951 (mimeographed). (See # 8 for published summary.)

Margaret Blenkner , “Predictive Factors in the Initial Interview in Family Casework,” Social Service Review, Vol. XXVIII, No. 1 (1954), pp. 65–73.

Margaret Blenkner and McV Hunt J. , and Kogan Leonard S. , “A Study of Interrelated Factors in the Initial Interview with New Clients,” SOCIAL CASEWORK, Vol. XXXII, No. 1 (1951), pp. 23–30 (a summary of # 4).

Margaret and McV Hunt J. , and Kogan Leonard S. , A Study of Intake: New Cases Coming to Family Service during March, 1947, Community Service Society, New York, 1950 (mimeographed). (See # 3 for published summary.)

Coleman Jules V. , M.D., Ruth Janowicz , Stephen Fleck , M.D., and Nea Norton , “A Comparative Study of a Psychiatric Clinic and a Family Agency,” SOCIAL CASEWORK, Vol. XXXVIII, Nos. 1 and 2 (1957), pp. 3–8, 74–80.

Elizabeth Coyle , and others, A Study of Brief Services, Family and Children's Agency, San Francisco, 1955 (mimeographed.)

Follow-up Study of Brief-Service Cases, Family Service Association, Indianapolis, 1955 (mimeographed). (See # 9 for published summary.)

John Frings , “What about Brief Services?—A Report of a Study of Short-Term Cases,” SOCIAL CASEWORK, Vol. XXXII, No. 6 (1951), pp. 236–241 (summary of # 1).

Graham Henry M. , and Blumenthal David L. , “Why We Failed—As Clients See It,” FAMILY SERVICE HIGHLIGHTS, Vol. XVI, No. 6 (1955), pp. 91–94 (summary of # 7).

Jones Helen R. , A Study of 117 Cases Which Did Not Continue Beyond a Single In-Person Interview, Minneapolis, 1954 (mimeographed).

Report on Study of One-Client-Interview Cases, Family Service Association, Cleveland, 1952 (mimeographed).

Lilian Ripple , “Motivation, Capacity and Opportunity as Related to the Use of Casework Service: Theoretical Base and Plan of Study,” Social Service Review, Vol. XXIX, No. 2 (1955), pp. 172–193.

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, No. 1 (1956), pp. 38–54.

Lilian Ripple and Ernestina Alexander , “Factors Associated with Continuance in Casework Service,” Social Work, Vol. II, No. 1 (1957), pp. 87–94.

Schwartz Dulcine M. , “A Study of 86 One In-Person Interview Cases,” Smith College Studies in Social Work, Vol. XXIII, No. 1 (1952), pp. 5–32.

Shyne Ann W. , Short Contact Cases in Family Service Agencies, Family Service Association of America, New York, 1948 (mimeographed).

Study of Short-Time Cases Closed with Five or Less Interviews, Family Service, Cincinnati, 1952 (mimeographed).