A study of the social adjustment of twenty-eight children with epileptic seizures and predisposition to convulsions in the Louisville and Jefferson County Children's Home 1937-1948.

Author

Elizabeth Whitcomb Brown, University of Louisville

Date on Master's Thesis/Doctoral Dissertation

6-1948

Document Type

Master's Thesis

Degree Name

M.S.S.W.

Department

Social Work

Committee Chair

Oppenheimer, J. J.

Committee Co-Chair (if applicable)

Threlkeld, Hilda

Subject

Louisville and Jefferson County Children's Home; Epileptic children--Kentucky--Louisville

Abstract

This study is an attempt to understand the social adjustment or epileptic children and those with a predisposition to convulsions in the Louisville and Jefferson County Children's Home. The writer proposes to show what these children were like, why they were committed to the agency, what their problems were, and what kind of an adjustment they were able to make within the agency.

Recommended Citation

Brown, Elizabeth Whitcomb, "A study of the social adjustment of twenty-eight children with epileptic seizures and predisposition to convulsions in the Louisville and Jefferson County Children's Home 1937-1948." (1948). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. Paper 1877.
https://doi.org/10.18297/etd/1877