ABSTRACT
Reliance was placed on group care that maximized the value of work, group experience, and communal responsibility; but with the country's economic and social progress, personal goals emerged as of primary importance. The 'denominational enlargement' was adopted in order to maintain the home help service's identity among the other social agencies. Relatively few of the included studies range over the entire spectrum of personal social service programs in a particular country. A major feature of the psycho-social conceptualization is that the inherited factor, seen only as a predisposition, can be made more or less manifest by favorable or unfavorable external factors. Little discusses 'opencare' for the aged in Sweden against a background of the country's social service policies and goals. Important as well is the development of an up-to-date expertise for interpreting both to professionals in other human services and to the lay public the constructive potential of personal social services for advancing the general welfare.
