Case study training for seeing school through adolescents' eyes

The first of two years of training in case study activities, adapted from the program originally developed by Fritz Redl, Daniel A. Prescott, and others at the Universities of Chicago and Maryland in the 1940s, is described. Excerpts from the case study of a 16-year-old female provide examples of activities, such as: (1) identifying recurring patterns of behavior, (2) selecting a pattern of behavior for analysis by the multiple hypotheses method, and (3) summarizing the case study record. The significance of this process is that high school personnel can learn to see what adolescents are up against in and out of school.