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Publication Date: June 1998
Publisher: Jewish Communal Service Association of North America
Author(s): Jay Sweifach
Research Area: Culture and religion; Social conditions
Keywords: Social Services; Jewish Identification; Youth
Type: Report
Coverage: United States
Abstract:
One reason why many JCCs are failing to serve adolescents effectively is the decline in the number of social workers employed as teen workers. Social work practice is based on several key values—self-determination, group work, the professional self, and diagnostic skills—that are crucial to successful engagement with adolescents. By using social work as a method and Jewish identity building as a function, strengthening Jewish identity becomes a natural byproduct.
In Journal of Jewish Communal Service, v.74 no.4, Summer 1998.