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Letters to the editor Dear Editor,~-I was most interested have to thank Miss Christian for the ~in Miss P. Christian's article, "A Group stimulus to think about such points as Experience for Mothers in a Family whether one can act both as case- .Service Project." It showed clearly worker and groupworker with the the value of group treatment as well same client. There is a gTeat deal of as casework in this particular setting. rethinking being done about various However, I am afraid that I do not aspects of social work, e.g., the rela- .agree with Miss Christian's final para- tions between casework, groupwork, graph, particularly the phrase attri- community organisation, social admin- buting the success of the experiment istration, and it will be interesting to to the fact that the workers were case- see whether our Australian journal can workers and "had the insight of case- make its own contribution here. workers combined with the techniques Yours sincerely, used by groupworkers in the group :situation." I may be making the Frances Donovan, wrong inference, but it seems that Miss Senior Social Worker, Christian implies that groupworkers South Melbourne City Council. lack the insight of caseworkers and ,use only "techniques." I feel that, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Australian Journal of Social Work Taylor & Francis

Letters to the editor

Australian Journal of Social Work , Volume 12 (2): 1 – Dec 1, 1959
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Letters to the editor

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Dear Editor,~-I was most interested have to thank Miss Christian for the ~in Miss P. Christian's article, "A Group stimulus to think about such points as Experience for Mothers in a Family whether one can act both as case- .Service Project." It showed clearly worker and groupworker with the the value of group treatment as well same client. There is a gTeat deal of as casework in this particular setting. rethinking being done about various However, I am afraid that I do not...
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Dear Editor,~-I was most interested have to thank Miss Christian for the ~in Miss P. Christian's article, "A Group stimulus to think about such points as Experience for Mothers in a Family whether one can act both as case- .Service Project." It showed clearly worker and groupworker with the the value of group treatment as well same client. There is a gTeat deal of as casework in this particular setting. rethinking being done about various However, I am afraid that I do not aspects of social work, e.g., the rela- .agree with Miss Christian's final para- tions between casework, groupwork, graph, particularly the phrase attri- community organisation, social admin- buting the success of the experiment istration, and it will be interesting to to the fact that the workers were case- see whether our Australian journal can workers and "had the insight of case- make its own contribution here. workers combined with the techniques Yours sincerely, used by groupworkers in the group :situation." I may be making the Frances Donovan, wrong inference, but it seems that Miss Senior Social Worker, Christian implies that groupworkers South Melbourne City Council. lack the insight of caseworkers and ,use only "techniques." I feel that,

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Australian Journal of Social Work – Taylor & Francis

Published: Dec 1, 1959

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