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Publication Date: December 1980
Publisher: Jewish Communal Service Association of North America
Author(s): Jerome M. Goldsmith; Judith Lang
Research Area: Social conditions
Keywords: Jewish Organizations; Social Work; Youth
Type: Report
Coverage: United States
Abstract:
Our commitment to a merged practice has deprived us of the comfort of selection of modality and client-unit based on training, bias, or agency mission and setting. It has, as we have illustrated, forced us to select criteria for more appropriate clinical dispositions geared to achieving maximum growth both for the child and for the milieu in which he thrives—most often, his family system. We are attempting no longer to cling to either the child as foreground, or the family as foreground. It is almost as if we have lost a simpler day of more automatic clinical choices, of clear preferred modalities. Now we have to struggle, be more creative, and accept ambiguity and uncertainty.
In Journal of Jewish Communal Service, v.57 no.2, Winter 1980.