Abstract:
The purpose of this thesis is to test the relationships between certain characteristics of clients of four family service agencies with the continuance and discontinuance of the casework treatments and services. The nature of clients problems, the services received from the agencies and the problems of social workers in family service itself are included in this study. The data for the study are collected from the interview of 217 clients and 23 social workers in four different family service agencies. It is found that most of clients are female with elementary education background. The younger clients seem to request more service than the older ones. Married women tend to seek aids more than unmarried women. The divorcees come for service more than the married people. Most of clients are of low income group. They mainly engage in petty commerce and household duties. Most of them live in rented houses. The major problem is economic difficulty. Consequently, needs for financial support and aids for their livehood are constantly sought from the family service agencies. The general problem of the family service agencies is the lack of substantial personnel and facilities for the follow-up-treatments. The hypothesis of this study is as follows : the continuance and discontinuance of treatments are related to the clients social, economic and education backgrounds. The study finally indicates that these social, economic and education factors are found to have no direct effect on the continuance and discontinuance of family services. It is recommended that all existing family service agencies should aim at a more constructive coordination in information exchange, methods and services, thus, avoiding the duplication of service and, at the same time, bringing about the general improvement of treatments. The service will, then, be more beneficial to the clients and their family.