The White Worker and the Negro Client

Hollingshead August B. , and Redlich Frederick C. , Social Class and Mental Illness: A Community Study, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1958.

Simmons Leonard C. , “‘Crow Jim’: Implications for Social Work,” Social Work, Vol. VIII, July 1963, pp. 24–30; Andrew E. Curry, “The Negro Worker and the White Client: A Commentary on the Treatment Relationship,” Social Casework, Vol. XLV, March 1964, pp. 131–36. For a discussion from the point of view of color blindness, yet one still applicable in many ways, see Inabel Burns Lindsay, “Race as a Factor in the Caseworker's Role,” Journal of Social Casework, Vol. XXVIII, March 1947, pp. 101–107.

“Non-White Families Are Frequent Applicants for Family Service,” Family Service Highlights, Vol. XXV, May 1964, pp. 140–44, 157.

Hollis Florence , Casework: A Psychosocial Therapy, Random House, New York, 1964, p. 149. The general theoretical orientation in this article is similar to that of Hollis. It should be understood that the focus on casework treatment is not intended to disparage or disregard other forms of therapy, but was chosen for the purposes of this paper because its theory and its practice are more familiar to the author.

Meier Elizabeth G. , “Social and Cultural Factors in Casework Diagnosis,” Social Work, Vol. IV, July 1959, p. 16.

Maas Henry S. , “Use of Behavioral Sciences in Social Work Education,” Social Work, Vol. III, July 1958, pp. 62–69.

Herzog Elizabeth , “Some Assumptions about the Poor,” Social Service Review, Vol. XXXVII, December 1963, p. 395.

Curry , op. cit., p. 133.

Hollis , op. cit., p. 29, describes the client's ego as “his capacity to think, to reflect, to understand.” See Heinz Hartmann, Ego Psychology and the Problem of Adaptation, David Rapoport (tr.), International Universities Press, New York, 1958, for a discussion of the concepts of a conflict-free ego sphere, autonomous ego-development, and the process of adaptation.

Hollis , op. cit., p. 163.

Pettit Lois , “Some Observations on the Negro Culture in the United States,” Social Work, Vol. V, July 1960, p. 105, refers to an earlier version of “tender condescension,” i.e., the denial or negation of real and existing differences, in favor of an “exaggerated evaluation of the Negro's … achievements.”

Brown Luna Bowdoin , “Race as a Factor in Establishing a Casework Relationship,” Social Casework, Vol. XXXI, March 1950, p. 96.

Maas , op. cit., p. 65.