Includes bibliographical references.

The Assessment of Social Research -- Experimental Studies -- Definitions of Experimental Studies -- Guideline Questions for the Assessment of Experimental Studies -- Exemplars of Experimental Studies -- The Executive and Evaluation of a Delinquency Prevention Program / William C. Berleman & Thomas W. Steinburn -- Some Effects of Close and Punitive Styles of Supervision / Robert C. Day & Robert L. Hamblin -- An Experiment in Prevention through Social Work Intervention / Henry J. Meyer [and others] -- An Experimental Study of the Observational Process in Casework / Roger R. Miller -- Insight versus Desensitization in Psychotherapy Two Years after Termination / Gordon L. Paul -- Worker Assignment in Casework with Marriage Partners / Otto Polalak -- Feedback and Accuracy of Clinical Predictions / Lee Schrest [and others] -- Quantitative-descriptive Studies -- Definitions of Quantitative-Description Studies -- Guideline Questions for the Assessment of Quantitative-Descriptive Studies -- Exemplars of Quantitative-Descriptive Studies -- A Cross-Cultural study of Correlates of Crime / Margaret K. Bacon [and others] -- Reputation and Resources in Community Politics / William A. Gamson -- Social System Perspective and Clinical Perspective: Frames of Reference for Understanding Career Patterns of Persons Labelled as Mentally Retarded / Jane R. Mercer -- The Decision by Unmarried Mothers to keep or Surrender Their Babies / Henry J. Meyer [and others] -- Motivation, Capacity, and Opportunity as Related to the Use of Casework Service: Nature of Client's Problem / Lilian Ripple & Ernestina Alexander -- Reactions to Supervision in a Heteronomous Professional Organization / W. Richard Scott -- Group Level of Aspiration in United Fund Campaigns / Alvin Zander & Theodore Newcomb Jr. -- Selected Reference for Additional Quantitative-Descriptive Studies -- Exploratory Studies -- Definitions of Exploratory Studies -- Guideline Questions for the Assessment of Exploratory Studies -- Exemplars of Exploratory Studies -- Intensive Treatment of Psychotic Behavior by Stimulus Satiation and Food Reinforcement / T. Ayllon -- Professionalization and Stratification Patterns in an Industrial Community / William A. Faunce & Donald A. Clelland -- Some Concepts about Therapeutic Interventions with Hyperaggressive Children: Parts I & II / D. Wells Goodrich & Donald S. Boomer -- Political Activity and Social Work Executives / W. Joseph Hefferman Jr. -- Solidarity and Delinquency in a Street Corner Group / Leon R. Jansyn Jr. -- The Young Adult Adjustment of Twenty Wartime Residential Nursery Children / Henry S. Maas -- A Multidimensional Comparison of Therapist Activity in Analytic and Client-centered Therapy / Hans H. Strupp -- Selected References for Additional Exploratory Studies.

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