2008.0060 Unit 0001

Unit TypeType 1 IdentifierUMA-UN-000079434Series[UMA-SR-000001749] Child Welfare HistoryAccession[2008.0060] PRIVATE AND PROFESSIONAL PAPERS OF LEONARD J TIERNEYDate Rangec.1955-c.1975DescriptionPapers and reports, ‘Excluded Families’ case data, Doctoral Dissertation 1976. Comprises loose papers and working files with reference to Tierney’s Dissertation, ‘An investigation of interaction processes (and consequences) between deprived families and social agencies and an attempt to restate social policy and administrative issues in the light of this investigation’. Also includes:
1. ‘Notes on a talk given to the staff of the Brotherhood of St Laurence’, dated January 18th.
2. ‘Memorandum on the eviction of families from housing commission homes’, dated August 1, 1958.
3. ‘An interim report on the Family Service Project 1955’ (marked confidential).
4. Personal letter to Tierney relating to his dissertation, dated 17 July, 1973.
5. File titled: ‘Dissertation Dr. Alfred J. Kahn’. File is marked personal file and contains papers relating to his dissertation. It includes correspondence between Leonard Tierney and Professor Kahn at the Columbia University School of Social Work, as well as copies of case studies 1968-1969. It does not contain the dissertation, date range 1968-1973.
6. Working papers relating to social structures and case patterns and organisations.
7. ‘Royal Children’s Hospital Department of Psychiatry: Review of the literature on multi-problem families’. There is no date on this item but the bibliographic references are 1940s and 1950s. The model of focus for the report is the United Kingdom, with some reference to the USA.
8. Chapter 4 (b) ‘The housing situation of problem families’, with attached bibliography (single sheet of 13 references).
9. Letter from Tierney to David (?), regarding ‘special leave’ to undertake researchAccess StatusAccess restrictions applyEMu IRN106618

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2008.0060 Unit 0001