The Social Diagnosis and Social Treatment of Children Who Soil (Encopresis)

Abstract

A review of the children who soil and whose parents were referred over the past seven years to the writer for social casework assistance with the management of these children revealed a wide range of parent-child relationships, varying from simple situations to some which were very complex. It is felt now that some of these children need not have been referred for psychiatric assessment and that social workers in medical social work departments could have given the parents all the help that...