Eileen Louise Younghusband - New Developments in Casework: Readings in Social Work, Volume 2

Volume 40

NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN CASEWORK

Edited by
EILEEN YOUNGHUSBAND

First published in 1966 by George Allen & Unwin Ltd.

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ISBN: 978-1-03-203381-5 (Set)

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DOI: 10.4324/9781003199946

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COMPILED BY
EILEEN YOUNGHUSBAND
D.B.E., LL.D., J.P.

first published in 1966

second impression 1968

first published in paperback 1971

second impression 1973

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This volume is the second in a series intended to preserve in more permanent form some of the most valuable articles which have appeared in British and American social work journals in the last few years. There are certain articles which are widely used and quoted, which have indeed become standard works but are not always easily available to busy social workers. The aim of this series is thus twofold, both to preserve such articles and make them more widely available, and at the same time by combining together the best that has been written on a given theme by social workers on both sides of the Atlantic to draw attention to recent developments in thought and knowledge.

The present volume includes articles which make use of both psychoanalytic and sociological theory in articulating casework method. It also includes contributions to new thinking about the range and variety of casework techniques with immature and inarticulate clients as well as those who suffer from character disorders.

It is hoped that this series will be widely used by practising social workers, by social teachers and by students not only in Great Britain and the United States but in those many other parts of the world where the profession of social work is advancing towards higher standards of practice.

The National Institute for Social Work Training has received much helpful co-operation from the authors of the articles which form this book and from the journals in which they appeared. In addition to expressing our indebtedness to the authors, the following acknowledgments are made with gratitude to the journals in which the articles originally appeared:

Barnett House, Oxford University, for permission to reproduce A New Look at Casework; The British Journal of Criminology (London) for permission to reprint Enforcement in Probation Casework; The British Journal of Psychiatric Social Work published by the Association of Psychiatric Social Workers, London, for permission to reprint The Function and Use of Relationship between Client and Psychiatric Social Worker, Function and Use of Relationship in Psychiatric Social Work and Transference and Reality in the Casework Relationship; Case Conference (London) for permission to reprint A Review of Casework Method and Casework Techniques in the Child Care Services; SocialCasework (New York) and the Family Service Association of America, for permission to reprint The Generic and Specific in Social Casework Re-examined; The Social Service Review published by the University of Chicago Press, Chicago, for permission to reprint The Role Concept and Social Casework: Some Explorations (Copyright 1961 by the University of Chicago), Identity Problems, Role and Casework Treatment (Copyright 1963 by the University of Chicago), Typologies for Caseworkers (Copyright 1958 by the University of Chicago); Social Work (New York), and The National Association of Social Workers for permission to reprint Worker-Client Authority Relationships in Social Work.

Margaret A. G. Brown

2. A NEW LOOK AT CASEWORK

Elizabeth E. Irvine

3. THE GENERIC AND SPECIFIC IN SOCIAL CASEWORK RE-EXAMINED

Florence Hollis

4. THE ROLE CONCEPT AND SOCIAL CASEWORK: SOME EXPLORATIONS

Helen Harris Perlman

5. IDENTITY PROBLEMS, ROLE, AND CASEWORK TREATMENT

Helen Harris Perlman

6. THE FUNCTION AND USE OF RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CLIENT AND PSYCHIATRIC SOCIAL WORKER

Elizabeth E. Irvine

7. THE FUNCTION AND USE OF RELATIONSHIP IN PSYCHIATRIC SOCIAL WORK

E. M. Goldberg

8. TRANSFERENCE AND REALITY IN THE CASEWORK RELATIONSHIP

Elizabeth E. Irvine

9. TYPOLOGIES FOR CASEWORKERS: SOME CONSIDERATIONS AND PROBLEMS

Lola G. Sclby

10. CASEWORK TECHNIQUES IN THE CHILD CARE SERVICES

Clare Winnicott

11. ENFORCEMENT IN PROBATION CASEWORK

A. W. Hunt

12. WORKER-CLIENT AUTHORITY RELATIONSHIPS IN SOCIAL WORK

Elliot Studt

Margaret A. G. Brown

I n 1915 Mary Richmond, speaking at the American National Conference of Charities and Correction, defined social casework as: The art of doing different things for and with different people by cooperating with them to achieve at one and the same time their own and societys betterment. This is true, but here I am concerned less with semantics than with emphasizing again that skill in casework lies in the understanding of the different needs of different people in various social circumstances and in the provision of different, appropriate kinds of help.