To provide information on subjects of concern to those in planning, management, and delivery of human services, this journal presents 149 abstracts from literature in the human services field. The journal is divided into five parts: the abstracts themselves, arranged in alphabetical order by title, with bibliographic and availability information; an alphabetical list of authors; an index of 1978 materials; an alphabetic list of documents; and cumulative subject index. The indexes provide a guide to the abstracts by specific subject category. Categories are listed alphabetically and include cross-references between conceptually related index terms and cross-references from synonyms to the preferred terms. Specific numeric citations follow the preferred index terms. Document accession and ordering numbers appear on the left and as the last line of each citation. (Volume 3, no. 3, of this journal is available in ERIC as ED 160 770.) (CSS)