Social Work

While today we might recognize the role of the social work profession, that wasn’t the case in the late 1960s and early 1970s.  That’s why The Common Base of Social Work Practice was so important.  It helped to explain what social work meant and what ...

A crisis is a temporary inability to cope by means of our normal problem-solving devices.  People in Crisis: Understanding and Helping is designed to teach the means by which we can help people through their crises and to reach the other side by helping ...

I’ve developed a respect for social work in ways that I never had.  It was hard for me to differentiate social work from coaching and navigation on the one side and psychology on the other.  Some of this was my ignorance and some was the blurring of ...

It’s two books smashed into one, though the discontinuity isn’t as large as one might expect.  Resolving Social Conflicts and Field Theory in Social Science are both works of Kurt Lewin.  I’ve been a fan of his work for some time not just because he was ...

It was 1980 when Jack Rothman wrote Social R&D: Research and Development in Human Services .  His big idea was the application of knowledge from industry into social services.  Specifically, he was focused on approaches and patterns that resulted i...