Principles and Techniques in Social Casework. Selected Articles, 1940-1950: Edited by Cora Kasius. New York: Family Service Association of America, 1950. 433 pp.

This book is a compilation of thirty-two articles selected by the advisory committee and the editor of the journal, Social Casework, with the objective of supplying a textbook of trends in the field of casework during the decade of the forties. The articles chosen include papers delivered before certain groups and republished here. Six are written by psychoanalysts who have served as consultants to social agencies or who have offered institutes for social workers: Drs. Leroy M. A. Maeder, Grete L. Bibring, H. M. Margolis and Jules Coleman. Seven are written by one-time members of the advisory committee and in one instance, three papers are by the same author.

In a Foreword the editor lists four major trends discernable in the decade of the forties: 1, a process of synthesis and integration, both of knowledge and method; 2, the art of helping has moved on to a more extensive social, cultural and clinical knowledge; 3, therapeutic experiences are more completely understood and relationship factors are under more disciplined control; 4, theoretical and technical differences between the functional and the