The Contemporary Family and the Responsibilities of the Social Worker in Direct Practice

Publication Date: September 1979

Publisher: Jewish Communal Service Association of North America)

Author(s): Herbert S. Strean

Research Area: Social conditions

Keywords: Social patterns; Family; Social Services

Type: Report

Coverage: United States

Abstract:

The author lays out some of the radical changes and challenges facing modern family life, including changing sexual mores and social ideals. He examines how social workers can help clients find satisfaction in family relationships. The author suggests clinicians ought to teach clients the "reality principle" -- that their role partners can never supply them with eternal bliss. To aim for omnipotence is to court disaster, says the author, but to accept imperfection permits much room for happiness.

In Journal of Jewish Communal Service, v.56 no.1, Fall 1979.