| Questions of administration | 1 |
| Registration of all appeals in a social workers’ exchange | 3 |
| Advantages of an orderly approach to social case analysis | 3 |
| Examples of case work treatment | 3 |
| The family | 2 |
| Marriage laws | 2 |
| Tasks growing out of war | 10 |
| Maintenance of family solidarity during absence of men, reinstatement of returned soldiers, Red Cross programs and functions of “home service.” | |
| Papers not devoted to a single topic included such subjects as: | |
| Case work as a source of information for sociology. | |
| Case work as contributing to democracy. | |
| Case work as interpreting industrial problems. | |
| Case work as serving those above the poverty line, cooperating, interpreting social work to the public, organizing the community, family budgets, thrift and pensions for widowed mothers. |
VI. INDUSTRIAL AND ECONOMIC PROBLEMS.
| Cooperation, health insurance, British labor party program, minimum wage, soldiers’ and sailors’ insurance, state care of mothers and infants, inheritance, land monopoly, the position of the negro in industry, trade unions in the public service, social work and the revolution demanded by radicals, causes for the existence of the I. W. W. and economic justice. |
VII. THE LOCAL COMMUNITY.
| Special needs of rural communities | 11 |
| Recreational facilities of all grades | 6 |
| Americanization on a neighborhood basis | 3 |
| Effects of war on a neighborhood | 1 |
| Other papers not easily classified deal with various expedients for focussing local interest, settlements, the community store and community kitchen, the social unit plan, enlistment of the business men’s interest in community progress and councils of national defence. |
VIII. MENTAL HYGIENE.
| State departments or societies and other organized agencies for mental hygiene | 8 |
| Training of social workers for the new task | 4 |
| Experience of the war in the care of neuroses | 3 |
| Care for the feeble-minded | 3 |
| Mental hygiene in industry | 3 |
| Mental hygiene and delinquency | 2 |
| Mental hygiene and education | 1 |
| One paper each on— | |
| Stimulation of public interest in care for the insane, the psychiatric element in all case work, the individual versus the family as the unit of social work, social problems as the reaction of mental types, the court’s dealings with the mentally afflicted, and the relation of social work to the state’s program, to hospitals, physicians, and the community in fostering mental hygiene. A few other papers present the actual lore of the new subject. |
IX. THE ORGANIZATION OF SOCIAL FORCES.
| Publicity for social work activities and education of the community in appreciating them | 6 |
| Impetus of the war to large scale organization for common purposes and the desirability of integrating social service | 6 |
| “War chest” | 3 |
| Registration of cases | 3 |
| Other papers treat of-- | |
| Endorsement and standardization of social work agencies, salary standards for social workers and their labor turnover and teaching materials for learners. |
X. 1918—GENERAL PROBLEMS OF WAR AND RECONSTRUCTION.