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28 Int'l Soc. Work 1 (1985)

handle is hein.journals/intsocwk28 and id is 1 raw text is: EDITORIAL N a thoroughly exhaustive article 'Towards Internationalizing Needs Assessment', authors Thomas D. Watts and Martin Sundel examine the idea of global needs assessment in social welfare. The paper is divided into three sections: first, a brief consideration of the history of needs assessment, second, discussion of the rationale for wanting to internationalize needs assessment and thirdly, several sugges- tions as to how to operationalize some of the ideas. Doctors from Preventive and Social Medicine apply their mind to areas of social defence. In Bombay, India, 371 delinquent boys and girls were interviewed in order to study the various socio-economic factors. In the majority of cases, an adverse home environment played a major role. Aberrent behaviour was seen to be associated with poor pecuniary conditions, nuclear family pattern and large family size. In Nigeria, Dr. Mba tells us how sizeable money and effort are spent on children in schools to invest in that category of human resource which is very promising for the society. A close link is maintained between the parents and the school environment through welfare officers. Author suggests that the welfare officers undergo special training to be more efficacious in their task. That social deve- lopment does not follow economic growth is well borne out by Korean example where high economic growth of the past two decades has been accompanied by acute social problems as also economic inequali- ties, different pay for same work, inequitable distribution of money and therefore power. Prof. Yang Chin talks of measures to combat the ills of unchecked economic growth specifically mentioning a field place- ment centre for department of Social Work at the university which applies itself to multiple activities meant to bring welfare closer to bare economics. Once again, in Indian urban community, the professors of two well-known centres of training describe extent of mental health deficiencies in a community of over 50,000 neople, all steeped in dire poverty. A significant area of dis- covery is that mental retardation is almost double in slum areas vis-a-vis non-slum areas Cultural deprivation seems to be a variable applicable to this state. Mrs. Chandra Dave Editor

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