Agency's Expectation of a First Year Worker

Publication Date: March 1957

Publisher: Jewish Communal Service Association of North America

Author(s): Saul J. Farber; Seymour Mirelowitz

Research Area: Social conditions

Keywords: Social Services; Professionalism; Higher Education; Recruitment

Type: Report

Coverage: United States

Abstract:

The authors discuss requirements for success as a first-year social worker. They identify ten areas of necessary competence: (1) applying psychiatric knowledge to individual and group behavior; (2) program skills; (3) supervising volunteer and part-time workers; (4) administration; (5) working with board and board committees; (6) understanding the community; (7) knowing how to interpret services to others; (8) knowing how to work with colleagues; (9) interest in professional organizations; and (10) intellectual curiosity.

In Journal of Jewish Communal Service, ed. by Sanford Sherman, v.33, no.3, Spring 1957, p.259-270.