Enhancing the Jewish Dimensions in Jewish Family Service

Publication Date: January 1990

Publisher: Conference of Jewish Communal Service (U.S.)

Author(s): Bette Sherriff; Phyllis Hulewat

Research Area: Culture and religion; Social conditions

Keywords: Jewish Education; Social Services; Jewish Organizations

Type: Report

Coverage: United States

Abstract:

Jewish content is not a separate entity added on to the services of a Jewish family agency but rather is an essential ingredient of its clinical practice. Over the past 25 years, changes within both the Jewish and therapeutic communities have coalesced into an increased understanding of the development of Jewish identity as part of the development of the client's total identity and the role of the Jewish dimension in the therapeutic process.