Pray .:. Social Work in a Revolutionary Age

Pray, Kenneth L. M.,
Social Work in a Revolutionary Age and Other Papers. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1949. x, 308 Seiten mit einer Abbildung als Frontispiz. Leinen. Grossoktav. 233 x 155 mm. 700 g

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Contents
Acknowledgments vii
Introduction by Virginia P. Robinson 1

PART I
EARLIER FORMULATIONS OF THE PHILOSOPHY
UNDERLYING SOCIAL WORK PRACTICE
Education for Social Work 9
The Role of Professional Social Work in the World Today 17
Social Work and Social Action 37

PART II
PUBLIC WELFARE
A Plan for the Treatment of Unemployment 55
The Role of Individualized Services in a Public Welfare
Program 85
New Emphases in Education for Public Social Work 105
The Child Welfare Field: What is Expected in Today's Total
Program? 118

PART III
PENOLOGY
The Woman Offender and Sterilization 137
Function and Structure of Social Casework in an Institution for
Delinquent Women 147
The Place of Social Casework in the Treatment of Delinquency,
with Discussion by Charlotte Towle 158
Social Work in the Prison Program 186
Parole in Relation to Classification and Casework in Prison 199
Casework Paves the Way in Preparation for Freedom 212

PART IV
FINAL STATEMENT OF THE PHILOSOPHY
UNDERLYING SOCIAL WORK PRACTICE
Social Work in a Revolutionary Age 225
A Restatement of the Generic Principles of Social Casework
Practice 244
Some Essentials of a Community Correctional Program 262
When Is Community Organization Social Work Practice? 274
A Philosophy of Change in the Community of Social Work 288
Biographical Statement 304
Bibliography of Published Papers 306

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