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Publication Date: December 1974
Publisher: Jewish Communal Service Association of North America
Author(s): Charles S. Levy
Research Area: Social conditions
Keywords: Jewish Organizations; Social Services; Social Problems
Type: Report
Coverage: United States
Abstract:
The author asserts that the field of social work suffers from too broad a set of conceptions about what the function of social work really entails. Everything from psychotherapy to social policy formulation are considered social work, he argues. The author argues that rather than trying to solve clients' problems, the social worker's function is to assist the client in relating productively to goals in spite of the problems.