ABSTRACT
John Doe’s psychotherapist at the V.A. Mental Hygiene Clinic was Miss Lillian P. Kaplan. Miss Kaplan received a Master of Social Work degree from the Graduate School of Social Work, University of Southern California in 1941. She was a social worker at a children’s agency and in public welfare. During World War II, she was a psychiatric case worker for the American Red Cross and was assigned to neuropsychiatric sections in Army hospitals, where she participated in diagnostic evaluations and in individual and group psychotherapy. She has been at the Veterans Administration Mental Hygiene Clinic, Los Angeles, since 1946. In addition to her individual and group psychotherapy with veterans, she supervises social work therapists in the Clinic and is a student training supervisor for psychiatric social work students at the School of Social Welfare at UCLA. She is co-author of articles on individual and individual-group therapy. She is a member of the American Orthopsychiatric Association and an active member of the American Association of Psychiatric Social Workers. At present, she is vice-chairman of the Southern California branch of this latter organization.
