Transforming the Working Definition of Social Work Into the 21st Century  

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Ramsay, Richard F.

Jenis: Article from Journal - e-Journal
Dalam koleksi: Research on Social Work Practice vol. 13 no. 3 (Mei 2003), page 324-338.
Topik: social work; definition; transformation; conceptual framework; common whole
Fulltext: 324RSWP133.pdf (82.37KB)

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Still in its organizational infancy, the National Association of Social Workers’working definition was a groundbreaking contribution to the evolution of social work in the 20th century. As a forerunner to Bartlett’s common base of social work, the profession was defined by the following five core components: value, purpose, sanction, knowledge, and method. Transforming the definition to 21st-century relevancy is the subject of this article. Ontological and practice issues are discussed in relation to transformational underpinnings that would evolve social work from its mechanistic and entity-centered roots associated with pre-20th-century science to the organic and relationship-centered discoveries of 20th-century science. An organizing framework is proposed that will transform the common base of social work to a new common whole of social work.

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