Can Social Case Work be Interpreted to a Community as a Basic Approach to Human Problems?

Abstract

The Milford Conference whose report on Generic Social Case Work was published by the A.A.S.W. in 1929 has reconvened this winter to study and discuss some of the matters of immediate importance to the field of social case work.

At its sessions on December 9–11, 1932, the Conference appointed two committees: one to consider the interpretation of social case work skills as a basic approach to human needs; the other to consider the integration of social case work services in the total community program so that they may fulfil their purposes both effectively and economically. It was suggested to both committees that they think in terms of social case work as a whole rather than of functional responsibilities of agencies. The report of the first committee was presented for discussion at the meeting of the Conference on January 13, 1933. We are privileged to present the report herewith as expressing the thinking of the committee and as a preliminary statement of discussions which will, it is hoped, later be incorporated in a report which will carry some of the implications of this discussion into the practical field of agency planning and equipment.—Editor's Note.