Putting the Social Work Back Into Social Work


 

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.