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- Title
SOME CASE WORK RECORDING LIMITATIONS OF VERBATIM REPORTING.
- Authors
Bruno, Frank J.
- Abstract
The article focuses on limitations of verbatim reporting recorded by social case work. If an interview is held, a social worker trying to get information from a reluctant client by the tricks and devices of cross examination, the record will reflect little or nothing of the personality of the client. In such a situation a verbatim report of the interview would only show up the barrenness of the case worker's technique and would probably throw no more light upon the client than the brief summary now contained in records. Two possible limitations upon effectiveness of the verbatim method are described here. In the first place there must be selection. The verbatim record need be no longer than at present. Selection of the significant statements introduces exactly the element of possible error which their interpretation in a third person recital involves, namely, the recorder is using his judgment with respect to the entire material. The second criticism relates specifically to the clement of vividness contained by introducing real evidence. This falls into two parts: the first relates to the accuracy of the memory of the case worker, and the second to the sound of his judgment. The second difficulty, however, is one which verbatim reporting shares with narrative reporting, and any correction of it would apply equally to each method.
- Subjects
SOCIAL case work; LAW reporting; SOCIAL workers; JUDGMENT (Psychology); SOCIAL services; REPORTERS &; reporting
- Publication
Social Forces, 1928, Vol 6, Issue 4, p532
- ISSN
0037-7732
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/3004330