Bristol and Manchester Reference Material
Scope and Contents
Publications: Handbook of Information for the use of Social Workers, Manchester and Salford Council of Social Service (1952); The Place of Psychology in Social Work, Case Conference (1956); National Association for Mental Health Pilot Survey of Adoption Cases (1953); Some Medical Problems as they affect Adoption Practice (1956); Child Adoption (1954); Reports of the Standing Conference of Societies Registered for Adoption (1953, 1955, 1957); Joint UN/WHO Meeting of Experts on the Mental Health Aspects of Adoption, final report (1953); The Magistrates' Association Annual Report 1958-1959; The Townswoman (December 1954); Improvement of Living Standards, Interim Report from the Study Group to the Social Committee of Consultative Assembly (1957); Children in Care and the Recruitment of Foster Parents (1957); Stott, D.H., The Prediction of Delinquency from Non-Delinquent Behaviour; Board of Trade Bankruptcy General Annual Reports (1956-1957); The Howard League for Penal Reform annual report 1958-1959; promotional leaflet for the National Institute for Social Work Training Series; Extrait du Cours de Psychologie Sociale, Guy Durandin a la Faculte des Lettres de Paris (1953-1954); Sociology and the Field of Mental Health (1956); The Pauline (1963, 1965); The British Sociological Association: Aims, Activities and Constitution; Sample surveys and the adminstrative process, International Science Bulletin (1953); Moral Welfare, A Quarterly Review (1959); Bastianns, J., Social Aspects of Slum - Clearance, Rehousing and Redevelopment (1957); Bristol Forum, A Regional Journal: Hartcliffe; The Magistrate, The Journal of the Magistrates' Association (1958-1962); Young People Today - An Account of Young People in Voluntary Organisations; East London Family Service Unit, report and accounts (1963); East London Family Service Unit newsletter; The Neighbourhood Worker, journal of the Society of Neighbourhood workers (April, July, October 1958); 100 Questions about You; International Union for Child Welfare newsletters 1964-1967.
Journal articles: "The Work of the Industrial Rehabilitation Units" and "Industrial Rehabilitation Units", extracts from Ministry of Labour Gazette, 1953, 1958; "Journey East", reprinted from The Magistrate, 1968; "The Disintegrative Action of the Nervous System", The Lancet, 1957; "The Anxieties of Retirement", The Transactions of the Association of Industrial Medical Officers, 1955; "Psychotherapy and the General Practitioner", British Medical Journal, 1957.
Ministry of Labour leaflets "Industrial Rehabilitation: The Road Back to Work", "Deafness and Employment", "Industrial Rehabilitation", "A Guide to Employers Obligations".
Photocopies and typescripts: Home Office Supplementary Statistics Relating to Crime and Criminal Proceedings in the Year 1957; British Medical Association and The Magistrates' Association - Report on Cruelty to and Neglect of Children, 1955; Compulsory Health Insurance in Sweden, Ernst Michanek, 1955; Information relating to a BBC production "Subsidised Housing: Some Observations Regarding the Rehabilitative Effects of Sub-Economic Housing on Coloured Families in Port Elizabeth C.P" by Miss FML Stoker, PhD, 1956; Outline of the Japanese Family Court, 1954; Association of Children's Officers, Proceedings of Eighth annual Conference, 1957; Widowhood in the Family, Peter Marris.
Dates
- Creation: Majority of material found within 1940-1978
Extent
2 boxes
Creator
- From the Fonds: Spencer, John Carrington, 1915-1978 (Professor of Social Administration) (Person)
Repository Details
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