Suggests social workers will be directly confronted with the relevance of the court as a social system that influences and interacts with practice. Examines the relationship of the judiciary to social work practice and develops realistic response strategies so workers may be participants rather than victims of proposed changes. (Author)

Presents interviews with four well-known and respected leaders in Great Britain's careers guidance movement. Discusses vocational guidance programs, social services, the impact of American journals, career education, and occupational opportunities. (RC)

Examines public support for benefits to older persons. Results indicated the priority given to benefits for older persons when compared with other tax uses is high, but the relationship between comparative and general support is low. Suggests it may be difficult for advocacy groups to expand current benefits. (Author/JAC)

Emerging undergraduate and graduate human services programs, called mental health, social services, community development, and applied social sciences, are not widely known or understood. While there are some common purposes with social work education, the potential for competition or conflict exists. Their significance for social work programs…

The journal section contains lists of federal programs, state programs, independent programs, social/recreational programs and agencies, and supportive organizations and agencies for the deaf. (SB)

The position of the "home for the aged" in the total social support network of West Germany is controversial. Senior citizen housing provides a more favorable atmosphere for older adults. Old age homes will have to offer better conditions and more independence. (JAC)

Alternatives to long-stay patient back-ups include building more beds of all types, changes in placement policies, and continuing hospital care for older adults. Manitoba's policies have resulted in redistributing the health dollar towards the geriatric patient. (JAC)

The Community Care Organization-Milwaukee, sought to provide care at less cost and with higher resultant quality of life than nursing home care. Most frequently used services were transportation and nutrition. Much of the cost savings resulted from reduced hospitalization and nursing home utilization. (Author)

Higher education, through the rural churches, can help bring positive change through the provision of continuing eudcation services to both the elderly and clergymen, through research, and through community development programs. (Author)

This research supports the proposition that a greater number of public employees results in a higher perception of quality in public servlces and that fewer administrative units per capita also result in a higher perception of quality in public services. (Author/IRT)

The growth of Black political strength in Richmond, Virginia in the 1960s and the attempt to maintain White control of the city by the annexation of suburban areas are discussed. (Author/RLV)

Although job training is seen as a palliative for unemployment, the author argues that training is needed to change attitudes toward the work ethic. He states that the government should launch a massive effort to modify outworn and irrelevant attitudes, values, and behavior concerning work and leisure. (MF)

The author contends that the prime danger posed by the trend toward greater accountability is that the responsibility for the outcome of social service intervention may have come to be seen almost exclusively in terms of worker accountability to agency management. (Author)

Examines some of the conditions needed for developing quality relations between social workers and foster carers in the realm of practical organization and in terms of individual qualities such as reliability, honesty, empathy and warmth. Looks at how social services and social work departments, in voluntary and statutory sectors, organize their…

Explored same-race practice through study of practitioners' perceptions, expectations, and service recommendations for troubled youths along racial, gender, and age dimensions. Found that social workers' expectations of outcomes and recommendations for services differed based on their perception of the youth and their own sex and race.(MOK)