TY - JOUR
AU - Hoffman, Mary Ellen
AB - Reviews opportunity to treat these clients because they turn CHARACTER DISORDERS IN PARENTS OF DELIN­ to social agencies for help with social and environ­ QUENTS: Beatrice Simcox Reiner and Irving mental problems, because social agencies can reach Kaufman, M.D., 179 pp., 1959. Family Service out to clients, and because treatment needs to in­ Association of America, New York or SoCIAL clude a combination of psychological and casework CASEWORK. $2.75. techniques. In this stimulating volume the authors have made Treatment is seen as consisting of four stages: a significant contribution to the understanding and (1) establishing a relationship, (2) ego-building treatment of persons with character disorders. The through identification, (3) helping the client estab­ largest group of clients known to social casework lish a separate identity, and (4) helping the client agencies falls into this diagnostic category. The gain self-understanding. The four chapters de­ book is based on research carried on at the Judge voted to these topics are particularly helpful because Baker Guidance Center in Boston. Although the they include discussion of specific treatment tech­ subjects are parents of delinquents, the study find­ niques as they relate to stages in the development ings are applicable to other persons suffering 
TI - Book Review: Character Disorders in Parents of Delinquents
JF - Social Casework
DO - 10.1177/104438946004100408
DA - 1960-04-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/sage/book-review-character-disorders-in-parents-of-delinquents-CNCtLleFgf
SP - 205
EP - 205
VL - 41
IS - 4
DP - DeepDyve
ER -