File contains six reports, papers and proposals regarding child health, child welfare, and group homes in Nova Scotia, drafted between 1970-1975 by Alexander John Murchison and others.
File contains early drafts of the community respondent social data and psychiatric questionnaires and a survery from Aro Hospital concerning displaced and detribalised people. Also contains a memo justifying the questions used and an appendix containing a blank copy of the final draft of the questionnaire.
Subseries consists of various statistical analyses done of data from the Yoruba studies, particularly in relation to education and male respondents. Memos, reports, publications, dataset printouts, and analysis manuals present.
File contains notes on village data, socioeconomic information, and psychiatric symptom statistics. File also includes a letter to Alex (Leighton?) from Ray (?) on the subject of sampling techniques and a further study on the role of physical depletions in the etiology of Yoruba psychiatric disturbances.
File contains materials comparing and analyzing the differences between the role of Yoruba and Elmira women. Includes research notes, answer scales and criteria, socioeconomic and employment data, family dynamic information, and statistical analyses.
Subseries consists of datasets, research notes, and statistical analyses comparing psychiatric data from the Cornell-Aro Nigerian study to that from Stirling County and the Inuit communities of St. Lawrence Island in Alaska.
File contains research notes, respondent master lists, computer dataset printouts, and tables of statistics relating to respondent psychiatric data and symptoms.
File consists of a letter from Robert Edgerton of the University of California to Jane Murphy regarding publication of her paper "Eskimo and Yoruba women: cross-cultural studies of psychopathology."
File contains notes on and tables of psychiatric rating and impairment statistics. There is much comparison between Yoruba villages, Abeokuta, and Stirling County and analysis of respective physical and mental health symptoms and patterns.
Subseries includes Jane Murphy's fieldnotes and personal journals from June to September, 1963. Also includes compilations of respondents' answers to open-ended questions about education and the role of women in their communities.
File contains one blank copy of the final fourth draft of the social data questionnaire for community respondents. Questionnaire is in both English and Yoruba.
Item consists of the fourth draft of an Atlantic Child Guidance Centre position paper, dated August 31, 1972, prepared by the Atlantic Child Guidance Centre Policy Committtee (Dr. Alexander Murchison, Dr. G. Gordon, Norris Turner, Paul Norton, Dr. S. Bijoor, and Everett Harris). The item is addressed to "all Atlantic Child Guidance Centre staff for comment" before final submission, and has the goal of ensuring that "adolescents [...] not be forgotten either in terms of bureaucratic strucutre or in terms of submergence in adult designed and orientated programs," and that they "require advocates" to ensure that any public health legislation does not overlook the needs of those who are "underage [... in a] largely adult orientated society."
File includes statistics on the socioeconomic statuses of Cornell-Aro study respondents and information for the psychiatrist's random sampling results.
File contains data coding information, a research proposal for Trout's study, and a compilation of socioeconomic data relating to rural Yoruba women from the 1961 Cornell-Aro study.
Item consists of an early draft of a "Group home development proposal" compiled by the Alexander Murchison (and others) for the Group Home Advisory Committee, Children's Aid Society of Halifax, dated March 5, 1973. The committee consisted of Dr. Murchison (chairman), Ron Smith, Pat Corkery, T. Daley, Mrs. Cleveland, and Father O'Neil. The purpose of the document is "to recommend proposals relative to the development of group homes by the Children's Aid Society of Halifax". Item also contains handwritten inked marginal notes and corrections.
Item consists of a later draft of group home development proposal compiled by the Alexander Murchison and others for the Group Home Advisory Committee, Children's Aid Society of Halifax, dated March 9, 1973. The committee consisted of Dr. Murchison, Ron Smith, Pat Corkery, T. Daley, Mrs. Cleveland, Father O'Neil and John Letkeman. The purpose of the document is "to recommend proposals relative to the development of group homes by the Children's Aid Society of Halifax."
File also contains copies of presentations given at the 23 May 1973 meeting: "Why an Alternate Family? (The Child and the Group Home," by Alexander Murchison; "The Orphan and Society," by Jean Paton-Kittson; "Social Services and the Group Home," by Frank Capstick; "Democratic Perspectives on Group Home Supervision," by Ronald L. Smith; "Houseparents Forum," by Mr. and Mrs. Salvador Renaldo; "Public Relations in a Group Home Program," by A.S. Kyte; and "Funding of Group Homes," by Timothy T. Daley.
File contains printouts of computer code, graphs comparing the relationship between mental health and acculturation, and a study by Frederic Ilfeld titled "Acculturation levels and mental health of 120 educated Yoruba women."
File contains printouts of computer code, datasets and statistics on respondents' occupations and economic status, and notes on coding education data. File also includes a copy of "Two factor index of social position" by August B. Hollingshead.
