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An examination of the fall of social work from its original mission to aid and serve the underprivileged shows how a national faith in individualistic solutions to social problems led social workers to leave social services.
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Harry Specht was Dean and Professor of the School of Social Welfare at the University of California at Berkeley and published numerous books and articles on social welfare policy and social work practice. He was the recipient of the 1993 National Association of Social Workers' Presidential Award for Excellence in Social Work Education. Mark E. Courtney is assistant professor of social work at the University of Wisconsin at...
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In no uncertain terms, social-welfare specialists Specht (UC- Berkeley) and Courtney (Univ. of Wisconsin) decry the trend toward private practice in their field over the last 50 years, demanding instead a return to community-based social programs. With the message that ``social workers should not be the secular priests in the church of individual repair; they should be the caretakers of the conscience of the community,'' the authors seek...
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- PublisherFree Pr
- Publication date1994
- ISBN 10 0029303559
- ISBN 13 9780029303559
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages209
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