Parents of the handicapped : self-organized parents' and relatives' groups for treatment of ill and handicapped children /
Alfred H. Katz
- Springfield, Massachusetts : Charles C. Thomas Publisher, Ltd., c1961
- 155 pages ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Chapter I. Brief description of method study -- Chapter II. Self-organized parent groups and America's social welfare pattern -- Chapter III. Summary account of origins and development of the four organizations -- Chapter IV. Parent participation in the self-organized groups -- Chapter V. Parent participation as a variable among the groups -- Chapter VI. Self-organized groups: a new agency? -- Chapter VII. The Groups and the community -- Chapter VIII. Self-organized groups and their staff workers -- Chapter IX. Patterns of parent group development -- Chapter X. Summary of findings.
Provides in systematic presentation, a frame of reference to the study of the growing panels of self organized arent groups and how they fit into the social service pattern.