The entire contents of this number is devoted to some of the basic problems in establishing training facilities for psychiatric social workers. Margaret Williams, Assistant Professor of Social Work at Washington University at St. Louis, discusses curriculum and field work. The Committee on Psychiatric Social Work, formed by the Group For The Advancement of Psychiatry, submits its conclusions and recommendations in reference to the psychiatric social worker in the mental hospital. Edith Beck, Helvi Boothe and Lewis L. Robbins contribute a discussion of the interrelationship between psychiatry and psychiatric social work. Finally, Edith Beck, Chief of the Social Service Section of the Winter Veterans' Administration Hospital, describes how the social work program was organized in this installation.