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- Publisher
- Wiley
- Copyright
- © Australian Social Policy Association
- eISSN
- 1839-4655
- DOI
- 10.1002/j.1839-4655.1969.tb01213.x
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Abstract
The following is a statement on social work and social work training . first published as a booklet by the Columbia University School of Social Work, New York. The foreword was by Fred Delliquadri, then the Dean of the School. It is reproduced here by permission. Time has run out on speculation about social work. The least appro priate position for an emerging profession is to be silent. Social work must be heard. We hope, in this essay, to give it voice. It is not easy to be a social worker, or to become one. Those who come to social work are themselves products of the environment chal lenging them. They must see themselves and their profession in clear light. Social work education, operating at varying levels of intellectual demand, is a learning process that aims to develop this vision. Social work education seeks to add competence to commitment in the men and women who intend social work to be their professional life work. The core of that work is to be able to deal with people. Training makes this aim viable. Social work had its beginnings, only a few decades ago, in philan thropy. Some of its earliest
Journal
Australian Journal of Social Issues – Wiley
Published: Mar 1, 1969