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MUSHKIN, SELMA J. "Medical Services and the Social Security Act Amendments of 1950." Public Health Reports, Vol. 66, Jan. 26, 1951, pp. 92-114.

Discusses the amendment establishing the Federal grant program for aid to the permanently and totally disabled, as well as the provisions permitting Federal sharing in payments for medical care for assistance recipients and Federal aid to recipients in public medical institutions. PEARSE, DOROTHY T. Social Information Report in the Administration of Aid to the Permanently and Totally Disabled. (Social Security Administration, Bureau of Public Assistance, Report No. 24.) Washington: U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1953.

47 PP.

Suggests essential facts that the social worker should include in his social information report.

RICE, CARL E. Determination of Permanent and Total Disability and Provision of Necessary Services for Persons Who May Have Mental Disorders. (Public Assistance Report No. 23.) Washington: Social Security Administration, Bureau of Public Assistance, 1953. 20 pp. Processed.

Defines major mental disorders and interprets the concepts of permanence of impairment and total disability, considers the role of public assistance in rehabilitation, and outlines suggested procedures for obtaining data and evaluating applications.

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, EDUCATION, AND WELFARE. OFFICE OF VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION, AND SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION, BUREAU OF PUBLIC ASSISTANCE. Working Together to Rehabilitate the Needy Disabled, Prepared for State Public Assistance and Vocational Rehabilitation Programs. Washington: U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1955. 26 pp.

Describes cooperative methods in two State-Federal programs serving disabled persons.

SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION. BUREAU OF PUBLIC ASSISTANCE. Characteristics of Recipients of Aid to the Permanently and Totally Disabled, Mid-1951. (Public Assistance Report No. 22.) Washington: The Bureau, 1953. 99 pp. Processed.

Findings from a study of the social and medical characteristics of recipients of aid to the permanently and totally disabled.

MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH AND WELFARE

These references are on the general background and the administration of title V of the Social Security Act, as amended. Other references on child welfare and maternal and child health services. may be found in the section entitled Services to Families and Children.

Background and General References

Abbott, Grace. The Child and the State. Vol. I—Legal Status in the Family, Apprenticeship and Child Labor; Vol. II-The Dependent and the Delinquent Child, The Child of Unmarried Parents: Selected Documents, with Introductory Notes. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1938. 2 vols.

Vol. II. traces the history of public care for dependent children from the time when the local government alone was responsible to the time when three levels of government-Federal, State, and local-participate in the program.

ARNOLD, MILDRED. "Redirections in Child Welfare.” Children, Vol. 4, Nov.-Dec. 1957, pp. 208-212.

Emphasizes the need of “a family of his own for every child."

BERNERT, ELEANOR H. America's Children. (Census Monograph Series.) New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1958. 185 PP.

A study, based chiefly on the 1950 Census of Population, of children and youth and some of their social and economic characteristics.

BOWLBY, J. Maternal Care and Mental Health. (World Health Organization Monograph Series, No. 2.) Geneva: World Health Organization, 1951. 179 pp.

Discusses the adverse effects on mental health and personality development when the child is deprived of maternal care, and the need for adoption, boarding homes, or group care for children deprived of normal home life.

BRADBURY, DOROTHY E. Four Decades of Action for Children: A Short History of the Children's Bureau. (Children's Bureau Publication No. 358.) Washington: U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1956. 90 pp.

Creation of the Bureau; The Early Years (1912-1921); Years of Economic Crisis 1921-33; The Coming of the Maternal and Child Welfare

Program 1934-40; Bureau in Wartime (1940-45); and The Decade 1946-56.

Child Welfare as a Field of Social Work Practice. Statement prepared by Child Welfare League of America and Children's Bureau, Social Security Administration, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. New York: Child Welfare League of America, 1959. 32 pp.

Defines child welfare and considers characteristics of child welfare, tasks in child welfare, requirements for practice in child welfare, and implications for social work education.

CHILD WELFARE LEAGUE OF AMERICA. A Statement of Principles and Policies on Administration of Voluntary and Public Child Welfare Agencies. New York: The League, 1958. 16

pp.

ELIOT, MARTHA M. "Twenty Years of Progress for Children." Social Security Bulletin, Vol. 18, Aug. 1955, pp. 23–28.

Outlines the origin, growth and development of services for children under Title V of the Social Security Act.

FREDERICKSEN, HAZEL. The Child and His Welfare. San Francisco: W. H. Freeman and Co., 1948. 318 pp.

Gives a broad view of child welfare and suggests approaches for the worker in this field. Includes chapters on guardianship and protection, safeguarding family life, and substitute care-adoption, institutional, foster home and day care.

HUNT, MAURICE O. "Challenges to Child-Welfare Administrators." Children, Vol. 5, Sept.-Oct. 1958, pp. 185-190.

"Steps for filling the gaps in services to children are suggested as challenges to child-welfare administrators."

LUNDBERG, EMMA OCTAVIA. Unto the Least of These: Social Services for Children. New York: D. Appleton-Century Co., Inc., 1947. 424 PP.

Describes the beginning of social service for children and traces the development of the Federal, State, and local public services for them.

OETTINGER, KATHERINE BROWNELL. "Current Concerns of the Children's Bureau." Children, Vol. 5, July-Aug. 1958, pp. 123-128.

Reviews the work of the Children's Bureau-past, present, and future.

"The Rights of Our Children." Child Welfare, Vol. 37, June 1958, pp. 1–6.

Considers the needs and rights of children in urban and in rural communities and discusses healthy parent-child relationships.

"Some Factors in the Closer Coordination of Health and Welfare Services." American Journal of Public Health, Vol. 49, May 1959, pp. 579–584.

Points out several major factors in the coordination and joint planning of health and welfare services.

SANDUSKY, ANNIE LEE. Child Welfare Services: How They Help Children and Their Parents. (Children's Bureau Publication No. 359.) Washington: U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1957.

94 PP.

Considers services to individual children and their parents, services to groups of children and their parents, agencies with a variety of services, community planning for children, and administrative planning and research.

"A Twenty-Year Perspective on Services to Children." Children, Vol. 2, July-Aug. 1955, entire issue.

A group of articles by specialists in the field of child welfare showing
the developments in child health and welfare since the passage of the
Social Security Act, including Child-Health Services Since 1935, by
Edward R. Schlesinger; Twenty Years of Maternal Care, by Samuel
B. Kirkwood; Services to Crippled Children, 1935-55, by Edward Davens;
Public Policy and Child Welfare, by Norris E. Class; and Directions in
Child-Welfare Programs, by Leonard W. Mayo.

U.S. ADVISORY COUNCIL ON CHILD WELFARE SERVICES. Report... (S. Doc. 92, 86th Cong., 2d sess.) U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1960. 50 pp.

The Council's report and recommendations on the major problems and issues in the field of child welfare.

U.S. CONGRESS. HOUSE. COMMITTEE ON INTERSTATE AND FOREIGN COMMERCE. Public Protection of Maternity and Infancy. Hearings, 67th Congress, 1st session, on H. R. 2366, A Bill for the Public Protection of Maternity and Infancy and Providing a Method of Cooperation Between the Government of the United States and the Several States. Washington: U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1921. 278 pp.

SENATE. COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION AND LABOR. Protection of Maternity. Hearings, 67th Congress, 1st session, on S. 1039, A Bill for the Public Protection of Maternity and Infancy and Providing a Method of Cooperation Between the Government of the United States and the Several States. Washington: U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1921. 152 pp.

U.S. LAWS. Public Law 97, 67th Congress, 1st session, An Act For the Promotion of the Welfare and Hygiene of Maternity and Infancy, and for Other Purposes. Approved November 23, 1921. "The Sheppard-Towner Act."

Public Law 255, 69th Congress, 2d session continued the provisions of this Act for 2 years and then terminated the provisions after June 30, 1929. Title V of the Social Security Act marked the resumption of Federal grants-in-aid for this purpose on a permanent basis.

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, EDUCATION, AND WELFARE. SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION. CHILDREN'S BUREAU. The Adolescent in Your Family, by Marion L. Faegre. (Children's Bureau Publication No. 347, Revised 1955.) Washington: U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1955. 110 pp.

Designed "to give some of the underlying needs of young, growing, human creatures which result in behavior that is sometimes hard for parents to understand."

Your Child From One to Six. (Children's Bureau Publication No. 30-Revised 1956.) Washington: U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1959. 110 pp.

Discusses the growth of the child—physically, emotionally, and socially, and considers some of the everyday problems general among children between infancy and school age.

Your Child From 6 to 12, by Marion L. Faegre. (Children's Bureau Publication No. 324.) Washington: U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1957. 141 pp.

A guide for parents that explains the behavior of children, discusses their physical and mental growth, and suggests how their abilities can best be developed as they grow older.

Your Children's Bureau. (Children's Bureau Publication No. 357.) Washington: U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1956. 48 pp.

Designed to reflect the ways in which the Children's Bureau works to advance the well-being of children and their families.

CLEARINGHOUSE FOR RESEARCH IN CHILD LIFE. Research Relating to Children: Studies in Progress ... Reported March–July 1959. (Bulletin No. 10.) Washington: U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1959. 158 pp.

Studies in progress on growth and development, personality and adjustment, educational process, exceptional children, the family, social, economic, and cultural influences, health services, and social services.

WHITE HOUSE CONFERENCE, 1909. Proceedings of the Conference on the Care of Dependent Children, Held at Washington, D.C., January 25, 1909. Washington: U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1909. 231 pp.

Recommends the creation of a Federal Children's Bureau.

1919. Standards of Child Welfare: A Report of the Children's Bureau Conferences, May and June 1919. (Children's Bureau Publication No. 60.) Washington: U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1919. 459 pp.

Section I-The Economic and Social Basis for Child Welfare Standards;
Section II-Child Labor; Section III-Health of Children and Mothers;

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