This book is the second publication resulting from a joint project begun in 1949 by the Russell Sage Foundation and the Jewish Board of Guardians to explore areas and ways in which social science thinking could be applied in child guidance practice and research. While the first book, Social Science and Psychotherapy for Children, introduced the possible contributions of sociology to the practice in a psychoanalytically oriented child guidance clinic, this second volume is a follow-up report by Dr. Pollak and his collaborators based on two years of practice testing of this liaison project. The author incorporated four social science concepts into the practice of child guidance: family orientation, social interaction, social roles, and culture conflict. He was able to prove the usefulness of these four concepts or theorems.

In regard to the concept of family orientation he considered that the traditional emphasis on the mother-child relationship is a