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- Title
POINTS AND VIEWPOINTS.
- Authors
Schreiber, Paul
- Abstract
The article presents information on recent developments in the field of social work in the U.S. Looking at the anachronistic residence laws, the article calls for more humane and flexible laws in accordance with the right of free movement. The continued existence of these discriminatory statutes, which contravene both the right of free movement and social work's principle of human worth, is a skeleton in the closet of the conscience of social workers. It discusses new developments in the field of family service agencies and casework treatment. Family casework has moved from the provision of concrete services such as relief, child placement and homemaker service to a psychosocially oriented counseling service dealing with various family relations. In view of this development the future of the family agency is to strengthen its counseling services by employing both social treatment as well as psychological methods. Mentioning National Conference on Parole held in Washington from April 9-11, 1956, the article reports that the conference stated that more specific and intensive counseling and orientation is required during the period immediately preceding release of inmates.
- Subjects
UNITED States; SOCIAL services; HOUSING laws; FAMILY services; COUNSELING; PAROLE; CONFERENCES &; conventions
- Publication
Social Work, 1956, Vol 1, Issue 4, p100
- ISSN
0037-8046
- Publication type
Article