Excluded families. Leonard J. Thierney

Thesis completed at Columbia University, USA 1976

Thesis is attached as a PDF to this record but is also available on CD in the BSL Archives in five parts. Incomplete print version of Leonard Tierney's thesis. Missing chapters relate to methodology. CD contains five PDF files which make up the thesis: File 01 : Introduction File 02 : The material world of excluded families File 03 : The family life of excluded families File 04: The process of exclusion File 05: Conclusions "Extracts from a Doctoral Thesis School of Social Work, Columbia University" - CD cover

Tierney, Leonard James, 'Excluded Families', Leonard Tierney's doctoral thesis was about following up with a group of families who had lived in emergency housing at Camp Pell during the post-war period. Tierney described them as 'excluded families' due to these families' difficulties with housing, employment and other social services. Tierney observed that a high proportion of members of the families involved in his research study had been involved with the Social Welfare Department - the family's unstable housing situation often resulting in children being admitted into 'care'.