Charles H. Shireman

Findings from Experiments in Treatment in the Correctional Institution

This paper reports an attempt to assemble and evaluate available reports upon experimentally designed research upon the effectiveness of treatment programs carried out during the 1960s in correctional institutions for juveniles or adults.

Goals of Social Work Education: Reviews of "The Social Work Curriculum Study"

In this number we present reviews of the several volumes of the recently published Curriculum Study sponsored by the Council on Social Work Education. Three years in the making, these thirteen volumes represent the second examination of social work education in a ten-year period. Social work educators can hardly be accused of shrinking from critical selfexamination. Whereas the Hollis-Taylor study,1 published in 1951, analyzed social work education and submitted proposals relating primarily to structure and to the educational responsibility of the profession, the current study attempts to formulate desirable goals for social work education. The Hollis-Taylor report made no searching and systematic study of the social work curriculum, but it did indicate that such a study should be made. During the early years following this report, efforts of the profession were directed toward launching the Council on Social Work Education.2 Urgent problems of accreditation required attention. Moreover, it was necessary for the Council to develop effective con-