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Showing papers in "International Social Work in 1970"


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TL;DR: The profession of social work has not yet taken root in the Afro-Asian countries as discussed by the authors, where most of the social workers trained in the countries of their origin, find their training more relevant and useful in Western countries, which they may soon adopt.
Abstract: The profession of social work has not yet taken root in the Afro-Asian countries. I: continues to draw inspiration and guidance from the country of its origin. This makes many wonder as to whether what they have learned in the schools could be practised in the field in their own countries, where they begin to feel alien. However, thanks to the employment opportunities available in the Western world, most of the social workers trained in the countries of their origin, find their training more relevant and useful in Western countries, which they may soon adopt. This calls for a serious and critical took at the profession of social work, specially in Afro-Asian countries. In the present paper my remarks will be mostly confined to India.

5 citations


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TL;DR: For decades the caseworker has occupied the throne of the social work profession, admired, respected, and occasionally even envied by his colleagues in other specialities as discussed by the authors. But lately monarchies have fallen on hard times everywhere, and the Caseworker is no exception.
Abstract: For decades the caseworker has occupied the throne of the social work profession, admired, respected, and occasionally even envied by his colleagues in other specialities... But lately monarchies have fallen on hard times everywhere, and the caseworker is no exception. If the caseworker still occupies the throne, he sits there less securely. There is open talk of revolt within the palace walls. 6 (pp. 5, 6)

5 citations


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TL;DR: In this paper, the role of a social worker in the total institutional process of mental hospital organisation is examined. And the authors highlight two significant aspects of the practice of psychiatric social work in India.
Abstract: HE aim of this article is to highlight two significant aspects of the practice of psychiatric social work in India. First, it seeks to examine the role of a social worker in the total institutional process of mental hospital organisation on the basis of certain first-hand data. Secondly, it may throw some light on the present position and future horizons of this nascent professional discipline in a country which has embarked

4 citations



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TL;DR: In this article, a text-book for surgeons, physicians, social workers, and others who work with the crippled and help to solve their problems is presented, where experience, advice and ideas can be found in each chapter.
Abstract: Experience, advice and ideas, all useful and confirmed by actual examples, can be found in each chapter. Thus we can regard it as a text-book for surgeons, physicians, social workers and others who work with the crippled and help to solve their problems. All this makes the book worth reading. Its humaneness and the strength of man’s will revealed in it can help the reader and encourage him in his work.

2 citations


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TL;DR: Bowlby as discussed by the authors suggested that young children less than five years old are attached to their mothers, suffer serious unhappiness if separated from them for more than 24 hours, and that if the separation is prolonged beyond a week or two this unhappiness and their efforts to master it may do serious or permanent harm to the development of their personalities.
Abstract: N 1946 Dr. John Bowlby formulated a ~ theory, as a result of his experience of the unresponsiveness of certain delinquent children to psychotherapy. He suggested that young children less than five years old are , attached to their mothers, suffer serious unhappiness if separated from them for more than 24 hours, and that if the separation is prolonged beyond a week or two this unhappiness and their efforts to master it may do serious or permanent harm to the development of their personalities. Put like this, it sounds pretty obvious; and indeed it was not surprising to the man in the street, or the mother in the home. But those who planned the war-time evacuation policies had no such awareness; nor was it obvious to a variety of ’experts’. In fact, it has been the subject of controversy ever since among psychologists and even psychoanalysts. Unfortunately, disbelief was strongest among those ’experts’ who for various reasons were responsible for the care of separated children. Doctors and nurses in hospitals or wards for sick children, the staff of residential nurseries, fought a lengthy battle in defence of the belief that the young child who ceases to cry after some days of separation and becomes quiescent has ’settled in’ and ceased

1 citations


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TL;DR: In this article, the achievements of the last twenty years in establishing both graduate and undergraduate school of social work are impressive, and a Canadian Social Worker in Japan has been interviewed and described.
Abstract: on Education for Social Work, which is supplemented by a paper by Professor Ken Takeda on Field Work and Placement Service. Social work education is emphasized in several papers. Miss Jean Woodworth sets forth am international viewpoint entitled, &dquo;Impressions of a. Canadian Social Worker in Japan.&dquo; She comments, &dquo;The achievements of the last twenty years in establishing both graduate and undergraduate school of social work are impressive.&dquo;

1 citations


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TL;DR: The purpose of this paper will be to characterize the basic elements of this theory relevant to social work in the areas of underlying theoretical assumptions, goal setting, relationship, socio-behavioural assessment, basic principles and treatment approaches.
Abstract: This material has been reviewed by the office of The Surgeon General Department of the Army, and there is no objection to its presentation and/or publication. This review does not imply any indorsement of the opinions advanced or any recommendation of such products may be named. * Major in the U. S. Army, Medical Service Corps. In addition, a doctoral Candidate at the National Catholic School of Social Service, Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C. S a profession that has suffered from A a quasi-scientific base, social work is likely to pursue with renewed vigour those approaches that provide the most testable bodies of knowledge. Behaviour modification theory is one such approach. It provides a clear, relatively simple means of establishing cause-effect relationships, of delineating treatment goals, of developing treatment plans and of measuring outcomes. The purpose of this paper will be to characterize the basic elements of this theory relevant to social work in the areas of underlying theoretical assumptions, goal setting, relationship, socio-behavioural assessment, basic principles and treatment approaches. In conclusion, a case illustrating the author’s utilization of this approach will be described.

1 citations


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TL;DR: In this article, a fragment of a discussion between two men of letters who were not university graduates points to the question of a mutual relationship between academic freedom and freedom of expression in general.
Abstract: This quotation makes sense even today, and threefold sense. First, being a fragment of a discussion between two men of letters who were not university graduates, it points to the question of a mutual relationship between academic freedom and freedom of expression in general. Briefly, we may call this the problem of interrelationship. Second, the letter shows that, as early as then, religion, the old battlefield in the fight for more freedom, was beginning to be abandoned so as to make way for new subjects to move into the centre of contest; that is the problem of shifting grounds. Third, our source, being two hundred years old, leads us, by comparison, to the specific differences between academic freedom in the eighteenth and a part of the nineteenth century and today. This is the problem of the specific nature of our topic.

1 citations


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TL;DR: The early labour movement expressed a non-political neutral attitude toward politics and was mainly interested in higher wages and better working conditions, not in social policy and legislation as discussed by the authors, while the leading pioneers of special worker in this period, such as Jane Addams, Julia Lathrop, Graham Taylar and others, were champions of social reform and social policies.
Abstract: a non-political neutral attitude toward politics and was mainly interested in higher wages and better working conditions, not in social policy and legislation. While the leading pioneers of special worker in this period, such as Jane Addams, Julia Lathrop, Graham Taylar and others, were champions of social reform and social policies, the early labour movement expressed no interest in these fields. In cases of industrial strikes, they found that charity workers, usually representing private church agencies, tried to persuade the women of striking workers to give up their strikes. These charity workers therefore were considered agents of the capitalist enemies of labour, since they identified with the wealthy financeers of their charities rather than with the suffering workers. Labour leaders complained that wealthy employers preferred to give money to charities, but refused to pay a living wage to their workers.

1 citations


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TL;DR: The Federal government's concern and commitment in a variety of social welfare fields have assumed increasing significance with the beginning in the Kennedy administration as mentioned in this paper, and have been recognized as intense political issues.
Abstract: With beginnings in the Kennedy administration, the Federal government’s concern and commitment in a variety of social welfare fields have assumed increasing significance. Problems of poverty, unemployment, inadequate housing, deficient public education, inadequate health protection, denial of civil rights, and cultural deprivation have emerged and have been recognized as intense political issues. Legislative efforts at tackling these problems have increased at an almost phe-

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TL;DR: In this article, it is suggested that consideration of emergent welfare efforts should focus upon at least three overarching desiderata: (1) the systematic delineation of problems and the selection of programme priorities, (2) the recruitment and training of professional service personnel, and (3) the effective organization arid delivery of social services.
Abstract: serve as direct models for subsequent programmes. The proto-typical nature of social service endeavours in developing nations, along with severe deficiencies in material and technological resources, give rise to a constellation of unique problems and considerations associated with the planning and implementation of social services. Among others, it is suggested that consideration of emergent welfare efforts should focus upon at least three overarching desiderata : (1) the systematic delineation of problems and the selection of programme priorities, (2) the recruitment and training of professional service personnel, and (3) the effective organization arid delivery of social services. Although all three are important at any stage of nationa) development, they are particularly significant during the early phases.

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TL;DR: The Social Work (Scotland) Bill 1967 T has, up to this point in time, been possibly the most significant piece of legislation on social work and social work organisation to be placed before a British Parliament.
Abstract: HE Social Work (Scotland) Bill 1967 T has, up to this point in time, been possibly the most significant piece of legislation on social work and social work organisation to be placed before a British Parliament. It was perhaps historically inevitable that its genesis should be in Scotland, since the conditions relating to the framework of social work existing in that country, which made possible direct changes in organisational structure, do not exist in England and Wales. In this paper