AbstractsSocial Work

The Boys’ Farm and Training School, Shawbridge, Quebec, is operated for the re-education of boys who have delinquent and other behaviour problems. Most of the boys at the Training School are committed by the Juvenile Court in Montreal and by other law-enforcing agencies [...]. During the years of World War II, the Juvenile Court had many boys examined at the Mental Hygiene Institute on Pine Avenue in Montreal, before committing them to the Boys’ Farm and Training School. The School found it helpful to return some of these boys [...] for further psychiatric help. When wartime shortages of staff eased off, the School began to make increasing use of the Institute’s services. This latter development was noticeable during the Winter of 1947-1948 [...]. The writer was interested in social case work with boys. He was also interested in the Training School [...] he was asked by the Institute to carry some cases co-operatively with the School. While the writer was working on these cases, it was discovered that both agencies encountered several problems in connection with referrals from the School to the Institute. These referral problems have been selected as basic topics for investigation in this present study. Both agencies agreed to co-operate so as to make such an exploratory study possible. The aim of this study, therefore, is to discover how these two agencies can work together more effectively than they have done in furthering the treatment of boys at the School.