Mental Retardation: Criteria for Grouping the Mentally Retarded Based on a Survey of the Grouping Principles and Practices of Eight Agencies Providing Social Group Work Services to the Mentally Retarded and One Agency Providing Group Services in an Educational Setting, in the New York City Area, 1964
Abstract
Background of the Study. The author’s interest in mental retardation was first stimulated by a discussion on the subject in the course, "Social Welfare Services” given at the Fordham University School of Social Service. This discussion led him to choose mental retardation as one of the three topics he was free to select and study for the final examination of the course. The discoveries made in studying this subject, for the author at least, proved nothing short of startling. Ignorance gave place to enlightenment as = he learned of the magnitude of the problem and its many ramifications. The author was introduced to the fact that any community he might one day serve as a social worker would, no doubt, have a population of the mentally retarded. He felt obliged, therefore, to equip himself with knowledge about them. He was also convinced that knowledge of the mentally retarded would broaden his knowledge about people in general. Desiring firsthand knowledge, the author sought and received a field placement with an agency dealing directly with the mentally retarded. The author considers himself very fortunate in having been placed with the New York City Chapter of the Association for the Help of Retarded Children.
Subject Area
Sociology|Social work
Recommended Citation
Matheson, Arnold Edward, "Mental Retardation: Criteria for Grouping the Mentally Retarded Based on a Survey of the Grouping Principles and Practices of Eight Agencies Providing Social Group Work Services to the Mentally Retarded and One Agency Providing Group Services in an Educational Setting, in the New York City Area, 1964" (1964). ETD Collection for Fordham University. AAI31189756.
https://research.library.fordham.edu/dissertations/AAI31189756
