Foster Home Studies, New Methods of Selection: A Comparison of Objective and Subjective Measurements Used to Evaluate Applicants to the Boarding Home Department of St. Joseph's Hall, Brooklyn, 1967
Abstract
An expected million and a half children of this United States’ generation will be in need of extrafamilial care In order to meet the needs of these children, improved methods of preventing family dissolution are required. However, for a more satisfactory response where preventive work is either lacking or not effective, services presently offered must be evaluated. While institutional, group or foster care will never be totally adequate for combating the deprivation of our neg glected children, agencies and professional workers must accept their responsibility to study the appropriateness of their program’s objectives, the efficiency of their procedure, and the utility of their service. While verbal approval is generally given to this concept, evaluations, and the changes they imply, can be threatening . Change can be especially frightening when the programs are traditional and entrenched within agency structure. It is, therefore, important to begin research at a time when flexibility of procedure is more likely to exist - namely, at the early stages of the program.
Subject Area
Social work|Quantitative psychology|Social research|Individual & family studies
Recommended Citation
Kelly, Delia Catherine, "Foster Home Studies, New Methods of Selection: A Comparison of Objective and Subjective Measurements Used to Evaluate Applicants to the Boarding Home Department of St. Joseph's Hall, Brooklyn, 1967" (1967). ETD Collection for Fordham University. AAI30359835.
https://research.library.fordham.edu/dissertations/AAI30359835
