What Is Social Case Work? An Introductory Description (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Mary E. Richmond

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1330134141 ISBN 13 : 9781330134146

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

What is social case work? A practical guide to helping people grow through better social relations.

Social Case Work explains a method for supporting individuals by improving their relationships with family, neighbors, and community. It presents the idea that personality develops through meaningful, well‑managed social ties, and that case work aims to help people participate more fully in life and in plans that affect their welfare. The book also situates case work alongside other forms of social effort, showing how practitioners learn from education, medicine, and reform to serve personality in concrete, real‑world settings. This edition frames how case workers assess and respond to diverse life situations—from home life to schools, hospitals, and courts—while emphasizing collaboration with families, groups, and agencies. It provides a clear description of the field’s goals, methods, and ethical considerations, with attention to the effects of environment, culture, and individual differences on outcomes.

• Foundations of social case work: its purpose, scope, and core principles
• How case workers build lasting change by coordinating with families and communities
• Practical approaches to individual differences, environment, and personality growth
• Relationships with other social forms, such as group work, social reform, and research

Ideal for readers seeking a clear overview of the field, its history, and its practical application in helping individuals achieve healthier, more autonomous lives.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Excerpt from What Is Social Case Work? An Introductory Description

Howe's stone was cast - not like Laura's into a brook, but into shoreless waters upon which the circles continue to widen and widen.

The story of what followed has been told many times, but not from the angle from which, as an introduction to the subject of case work, I now propose to view it.

Helen Keller was six years and nine months old when Miss Sullivan came to Tuscumbia. Though her teacher did not keep a diary like Dr. Howe's, we have what for my present purpose serves even better. At almost weekly intervals during that first year Miss Sullivan wrote to a friend, the matron of Perkins Institution, giving her not so much the educational details of a task with which her correspondent was already ia miliar, but describing the new situations, many of them social, with which she found herself con fronted, and adding the frankest possible report of her own mental processes in trying to meet these. 80 we have in the letters not only what happened but how it happened, and the teacher's own reactions as well as the pupil's.

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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1330134141
• ISBN 13: 9781330134146
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 280
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