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- Title
Desegregation and Integration in Social Work.
- Authors
Simons, Savilla Millis
- Abstract
The article discusses the impact of social change on social work in the U.S. Social change is always a highly disturbing and painful process, but also one that gives hope. Social work was born out of social change. It has a function in helping people to adjust to social change and it is also itself an instrument of social change. Social work is inevitably involved in an active role in the process of desegregation and integration due to a variety of reasons. Firstly, convictions of social workers as to the worth of the individual and their commitment as social workers to work for the self-fulfillment of the individual and increased social well-being require it as a matter of conscience. Secondly, social workers are concerned with the effects of exclusion, discrimination and segregation on individuals. Thirdly, social work agencies as an important part of the social fabric and community life cannot isolate themselves from social change of so significant a character. And finally social work has insights and skills that help in the process of change and ease the adjustments involved.
- Subjects
UNITED States; SOCIAL services; SOCIAL change; SOCIAL workers; PUBLIC welfare; HUMAN services
- Publication
Social Work, 1956, Vol 1, Issue 4, p20
- ISSN
0037-8046
- Publication type
Article