ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the problem family is creeping the expression 'under-privileged family'. It suggests any underlying psychological factors and personality factors in the problem family which could bring together these various symptom-reactions into something like a clear-cut, interrelated, understandable pattern. The chapter shows that these basic concepts have to be considered in relation to the individual nature of the pattern of each individual family. These are immaturity and the type of relationship pattern which occurs in the problem family. The more one studies the problem family in the light of the aetiological and psychodynamic patterns the more one is impressed by the potential strengths of these family units, and of their individual members. These people are grossly immature; but they have made some progress up the ladder of emotional and social growth. The chapter suggests material help-housing, financial help, birth control clinics, and other similar things — must be geared into the therapeutic casework approach.
