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The Common Base of Social Work Practice

The Common Base of Social Work Practice

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 ...
People in Crisis: Understanding and Helping

People in Crisis: Understanding and Helping

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 ...
Social R&D: Research and Development in Human Services

Social R&D: Research and Development in Human Services

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...