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The evolution of social work ethics.(Special Centennial Issue)
November 1, 1998... Ethical issues have always been a central feature in social work. Throughout the profession's history social workers have been concerned with matters of right and wrong and matters of duty and obligation. The National Association of Social...
The one hundred-year debate: social reform versus individual treatment.(Special Centennial Issue)
November 1, 1998... After 100 years, one would think that professional social workers would agree about the basic goal of the profession; yet any social work conference, journal, or even professional dialogue is still filled with disagreements about that goal. We...
Social work and social reform: an arena of struggle.(Special Centennial Issue)
November 1, 1998... The twin pressures of containment and change have plagued social work since its origins in the late 19th century. The profession can boast of a long history of progressive activism directed to individual and social change. At the same time,...
Clinical social work's contribution to a social justice perspective.(Special Centennial Issue)
November 1, 1998... Social justice is increasingly being seen as the organizing value of social work. For clinical social workers, this conceptualization clarifies and focuses a unique contribution that clinical social work can make to the mental health...
Capacity building for integrated family-centered practice.(Special Centennial Issue)
November 1, 1998... Economic and Social Supports for Families: Historical Antecedents
The birth of social work and other helping professions at the turn of the 20th century helped to launch social welfare programs that were seen as preventive social and...
Occupational social work for the 21st century.(Special Centennial Issue)
November 1, 1998... Work is an essential, defining component of most people s lives, serving both instrumental and expressive purposes among individuals and their families. As the 20th century ends, economic restructuring and radical changes in welfare policy are...
The rise of social work in public mental health through aftercare of people with serious mental illness.(Special Centennial Issue)
November 1, 1998... Social work practice with those who were labeled "insane" in the parlance of the early 20th century (individuals found to meet the legal definition of "insanity" at a "lunacy" court hearing and committed to institutions), arose from a socially...
Every picture tells a story.(Special Centennial Issue)
November 1, 1998... Most Americans educated in the last half of the 20th century are familiar with the photographs taken by the early social photographers. The stark, blunt photographs of New York's poor, taken by Jacob Riis, the carefully composed and biting...