Document Type
Article
Publication Date
4-23-1977
College/Unit
Eberly College of Arts and Sciences
Department/Program/Center
Social Work
Abstract
This paper was written for a faculty seminar at the School of Social Work, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, where at the time the author was an Assistant Professor. It makes the case that contemporary social work at the time was an uneasy mix of three very different approaches: A public affairs perspective addressing broad social policy issues; a community services perspective extending to agency management, planning and financing; and a personal care perspective built on psychotherapy, social casework and group work. At the time, many schools of social work were struggling with a legacy of strong support for the personal care perspective and trying to find appropriate places for the public affairs and community services perspectives.
Digital Commons Citation
Lohmann, Roger A., "Public Affairs, Community Service and Personal Care: The Three Faces of Social Work" (1977). Faculty & Staff Scholarship. 2998.
https://researchrepository.wvu.edu/faculty_publications/2998
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