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What is social policy?
What is social welfare policy?
What is policy?
Who makes policy?
Why is policy important to social workers?
This week the reading assignment was for Trattner From Poor Law to Welfare State Chapters 9-12. A journey of the development of Social Work as a profession was looked at in detail. Three informative or useful things I learned was:
1.) I am still surprised to see the women who became professionals in late 1800's to the early 1900's. A time when their rights were not equal to men, they could not even vote. Julia Lanthrop, in 1917 published a plan for "public protection of maternity and infancy" in an Annual Report to Congress. Jeanette Rankin, first woman to serve in Congress. Anna Dawes and Mary Richmond publishing pleas for education for social workers. Grace and Edith Abbott...the list continues on of the women who paved the way for social policy and the profession social work has evolved into today.
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After so many years of voluntary social work, the first school was developed in 1898 in New York city. An annual six week summer program with 27 active social workers attending. From there the education has evolved into the intensive programs we attend today. Once education was set up and producing professionals, 1920 presented the Association of Training Schools of Professional Social Work. Today known as the National Association of Social Workers. I found it interesting how education and a board to ensure ethics are up held in this profession took so long to be developed. I could not imagine working in a field and having these changes implemented on me it must have been quite the transition.
3.) How social work transformed from social policy to behavioral science. The original focus of social workers was on helping the individual economically. Educating social workers not only acquired professionalism also developed into psychiatry and psychoanalysis. Caseworkers were developed.
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