A Study of the Applicant Intake of Adoption Agencies in the State of California
Abstract
Statement and Delimitation of the Problem, This study is a descriptive one, dealing with the analysis of some of the factors relating to applicant intake. The observation material is derived largely from the writer’s experience as an intake caseworker responsible for the new or renewed contacts made by applicants who come to an adoption agency. The study is not concerned with the intake work involving children to be placed for adoption, but only with adoptive couples.The study is intended to deal primarily with only one unit of service within the adoption agency—the intake division—while at the same time recognizing that the adoption agency is itself only one segment of the entire social service program of the community. Interest is focused more on casework considerations than on problems of administration but with the recognition that here, too, one can scarcely be separated entirely from the other.
Subject Area
Public administration|Social research|Sociology
Recommended Citation
Dunn, Mary Harriet, "A Study of the Applicant Intake of Adoption Agencies in the State of California" (1950). ETD Collection for Fordham University. AAI31097064.
https://research.library.fordham.edu/dissertations/AAI31097064
