The Family Department of a Catholic Agency Reviews Its Services to Clients: An Analysis of Twenty-Three Cases Assigned to the Family Department of the Catholic Charities of Buffalo During the First Ten Months of 1950
Abstract
Organized private agencies can look back upon many years of an enviable history. Agencies have gone through many phases, clanging with the times and learning by experiences. Originally they were concerned primarily with the "poor" and with the administration of relief. As they borrowed from the sciences, particularly psychiatry, they learned that people needed help in many more areas before they could adjust to any part or all of their environment. As casework techniques improved family agencies moved from the mere provision of the external means of family maintenance to an awareness of the need for strengthening inter personal relationships for family stability. The year 1950 finds private agencies with intensified knowledge and skills and consequently with greater responsibility to its clients and the community. In this thesis the writer will attempt to show how one agency has developed its adaptability.
Subject Area
Individual & family studies|Public administration|Social work
Recommended Citation
Pierce, Catherine Elizabeth, "The Family Department of a Catholic Agency Reviews Its Services to Clients: An Analysis of Twenty-Three Cases Assigned to the Family Department of the Catholic Charities of Buffalo During the First Ten Months of 1950" (1951). ETD Collection for Fordham University. AAI30509608.
https://research.library.fordham.edu/dissertations/AAI30509608
