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The social worker in an administrative role

The social worker in an administrative role There are a number of basic elements going to make up the central core of knowledge or disci- pline running through the profession of social work. This "basic 8", as it is called, consists of case work, group work, community organization, research, public welfare, psychiatric and medical social work - the eighth is social administration. In social work thinking and literature, adminis- tration has been the most neglected of all these - (there was no mention of it in the American Nation- al Conference until the late '30s) - and this is all the more strange because it is the element of social work which has probably had the most common applic- ation by skilled and unskilled practitioners. Ad- ministration, wherever it is practised, is simply the application of social organization - the organ- ization of the human group to achieve some partic- ular and - combination of case work and group work technique. Your skilful administrator achieves empirically, or by deliberate thinking (training) an understanding of the various principles of re- lationships in individuals and groups. Any social administration is, as it was recently described to me, a matter of thoughtful advance planning and the time to give http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Australian Journal of Social Work Taylor & Francis

The social worker in an administrative role

Cannon, Ethel
Australian Journal of Social Work , Volume 6 (4): 13 – Sep 1, 1952
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The social worker in an administrative role

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There are a number of basic elements going to make up the central core of knowledge or disci- pline running through the profession of social work. This "basic 8", as it is called, consists of case work, group work, community organization, research, public welfare, psychiatric and medical social work - the eighth is social administration. In social work thinking and literature, adminis- tration has been the most neglected of all these - (there was no mention of it in the American...
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Abstract

There are a number of basic elements going to make up the central core of knowledge or disci- pline running through the profession of social work. This "basic 8", as it is called, consists of case work, group work, community organization, research, public welfare, psychiatric and medical social work - the eighth is social administration. In social work thinking and literature, adminis- tration has been the most neglected of all these - (there was no mention of it in the American Nation- al Conference until the late '30s) - and this is all the more strange because it is the element of social work which has probably had the most common applic- ation by skilled and unskilled practitioners. Ad- ministration, wherever it is practised, is simply the application of social organization - the organ- ization of the human group to achieve some partic- ular and - combination of case work and group work technique. Your skilful administrator achieves empirically, or by deliberate thinking (training) an understanding of the various principles of re- lationships in individuals and groups. Any social administration is, as it was recently described to me, a matter of thoughtful advance planning and the time to give

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Australian Journal of Social Work – Taylor & Francis

Published: Sep 1, 1952

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