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- Title
Fields of Social Work Practice: Organizing Our Resources for More Effective Practice.
- Authors
Studt, Elliot
- Abstract
The article discusses about fields of social work practice. For the last fifteen years the social work profession has been attempting to formulate the relation between practice and its various organizational contexts in a way that explains observable differences in practice and at the same time contributes significantly to the practice theory of an integrated profession. In the early 1950's, when development of a generic practice theory had top priority on the professional agenda, it was attempted to dismiss fields of practice as a useful concept for theoretical analysis. The concept of the field of social work practice directs attention to the social environment that is relevant for the unit of social work action. It enables to ask about field of practice as an environment for social work action that makes a difference in the social worker and his client. The social environment of fields of practice encompasses both the social worker and his client as they act together. Use of this larger unit for analysis allows to ask what social forces bring the worker and his client together in one field rather than another.
- Subjects
SOCIAL services; PARAPROFESSIONALS in social services; SOCIAL workers; SOCIAL action; FIELD research; HUMAN services
- Publication
Social Work, 1965, Vol 10, Issue 4, p156
- ISSN
0037-8046
- Publication type
Article