Readings in Social Case Work 1920–1938 : : Selected Reprints for the Case Work Practitioner / / ed. by Fern Lowry.

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• MitwirkendeR: Acheson, Eunice M.,; Addiss, Luise,; Allen, Frederick H.,; Aptekar, Herbert H.,; Bartlett, Harriett M.,; Boggs, Marjorie,; Boie, Maurine,; Brown, Esther L.,; Cannon, M. Antoinette,; Carr, Charlotte E.,; Clarke, Elizabeth Munro,; Coyle, Grace L.,; Day, Florence R.,; Deihl, Nannie E.,; Emery, E. VanNorman,; Feder, Leah,; Finlayson, Alan D.,; Foster, Sybil,; Gibbons, Mary L.,; Glenn, Mary Willcox,; Guilford, Elizabeth,; Hall, Gladys E.,; Hambrecht, Leona M.,; Hamilton, Gordon,; Healy, William,; Hill, Ruth,; Hollis, Florence,; Jones, Marshall E. St. Edward,; Kardiner, Abram,; Karpf, Maurice J.,; Kelso, Robert W.,; Kraus, Hertha,; Lee, Porter R.,; Lenroot, Katharine F.,; Levey, Beatrice Z.,; Lewis, Ruth E.,; Lurie, Harry L.,; Marcus, Grace F.,; McCord, Elizabeth,; Meredith, Lois A.,; Merrill, Laura A.,; Middleton, John B.,; Millar, Margaret,; Moorhead, Muriel,; Moran, Frederick A.,; Neustaedter, Eleanor,; O’Grady, John,; Pettit, Walter W.,; Reynolds, Bertha C.,; Roberts, Dorothy,; Rogers, Carl R.,; Schweinitz, Dorothea de,; Stevenson, George S.,; Taussig, Frances,; Taylor, Ruth,; Towle, Charlotte,; Trout, Bessie E.,; Ulman, Joseph N.,; Van Kleeck, Mary,; Van Waters, Miriam,; Waite, Florence T.,; Wallerstein, Helen C.,; Warren, George L.,; Webb, Constance B.,; Wilson, Robert S.,; Wires, Emily Mitchell,; Young, Mary A.,
• HerausgeberIn: Lowry, Fern,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1939]; ©1939
• Year of Publication: 1939
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (810 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Preface --; Contents --; Basic Philosophy --; General Concepts Underlying Social Work Practice --; Changing Fundamentals of Social Work --; Underlying Principles and Common Practices in Social Work --; Social Work: Cause and Function --; Philosophical Trends in Modern Social Work --; Social Work and the Social Order --; Philosophical Concepts in Case Work Practice --; The Growth of Social Case Work in the United States --; Refocusing Family Case Work --; Recent Changes in the Philosophy of Social Workers --; Where the Changes in Social Case Work Have Brought Us --; The Status of Social Case Work Today --; Social Case Work: What is It? What is Its Place in the World Today? --; A General Analysis of Current Trends in Case Work --; Basic Concepts in Social Case Work --; Generic Concepts in Case Work Practice --; Early Interviews and Exploratory Processes --; The Extent of the Intake Interview --; Two Interviews --; A Little Matter of Self-Respect --; First Interviews as an Experiment in Human Relations --; Early Interviews as a Basis for Treatment Plans --; The Continuity of Intake and Treatment Processes --; Continuance of Study and Diagnostic Processes --; Purposeful Investigation --; Can Listening Become a Case Work Art? --; How do we Come to an Understanding of Our Clients? --; Diagnosis: A Changing Concept --; What is Involved in Simplicity of Treatment? --; The Diagnostic Process in Continuing Treatment --; Treatment Processes --; The Case Worker’s Role in Treatment --; Present Trends in the Case Worker’s Role in Treatment --; The Role of the Case Worker in Treatment --; Some Contributions of Therapy to Generalized Case Work Practice --; Factors in Treatment --; Changing Practices in Case Work Treatment --; Modern Use of Older Treatment Methods --; Relation of Practice to Agency Function and Setting --; Concepts Underlying Case Work Practice in the Specialized Fields --; Problems the Public Welfare Field Presents to the Professional Social Worker --; The Application of Case Work Theory to Public Welfare Practice --; Social Case Work as Applied to Old Age Assistance --; The Continuing Concern of Family Agencies with Economic Need --; New Emphases in Family Social Work --; Problems of Growth in Family Case Work --; A Good Foster Home: Its Achievements and Limitations --; The Mental Hygiene Implications in Substitute Parental Care --; Mental Health Needs in Children’s Institutions --; Problems and Trends in Medical Social Case Work --; Medical Social Work in 1937 --; Psychiatric and Social Treatment: Functions and Correlations --; Changing Concepts in Visiting Teacher Work --; Discussion of Miss Hall’s Paper --; New Light on Juvenile Courts and Probation --; Functional Interrelationships of Case Work and Other Social Work Fields --; Case Work and Social Work: The Function of Social Service --; Relation of Public and Private Family Agencies --; Case Work and Group Work --; Social Workers and Social Action --; Hospital Social Service in its Relation to Community Welfare Agencies --; Community Organization in Relation to other Forms of Social Work --; The Part of the Worker in the Community’s Acceptance of Social Work --; Reëxamination of Child Care Functions in Family Agencies --; A Reëxamination of Child Welfare Functions in Foster Care Agencies --; Reëxamination of Child Welfare Functions in Family and Foster Care Agencies --; Participation of Family Welfare Agencies in a Housing Program --; Parole and the Family Agency --; Social Legislation and the Family Case Worker --; Some Aspects of International Case Work --; The Relation of Social Work Practice yo its Professional and Social Setting --; Social Work Against a Background of the other Professions --; Sociology and Social Work --; The Application of Mental Tests in Family Case Work --; Studies In Coördination of Effort Between Psychologist and Social Worker --; The Influence of Psychiatry on Social Work --; Home Economics Service in Family Agencies --; Relations Between Social Agencies and Schools --; The Family Case Worker’s Contribution Toward Higher Industrial Standards --; Law as a Creative Force in Social Welfare --; Relation of Case Work Practice to Community and Socioeconomic and Cultural Setting --; Social Planning and Social Work --; Case Work in a Changing Social Order --; Security, Cultural Restraints, Intrasocial Dependencies, and Hostilities --; The Case Worker's Need for Orientation to the Culture of the Client --; Index of Authors
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780231889216; 9783110442489
• DOI: 10.7312/lowr92538
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Fern Lowry.

A collection of articles on social case work published between 1920 and 1938 on the relatedness of case work practice to the setting within which it is practiced, its relationship to other professional fields, its relationship to the field of social work, the relation of generic practice to specialized forms of practice, and the interrelationship of the various specialized forms of case work practice.