Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Social Work With Families, Vol. 77: Social Case Treatment; The Annals; With Supplement, May, 1918
The development of the principles and methods of social case work has been a slow and almost unconscious evolution. Only re cently have social case workers become articulate in the technique of their field. They have been such deadly doers that little time has been left to analyze critically the technique of the day's work. Miss Richmond's book, Social Diagnosis, is monumental not only because of its scope and scholarship but because it marks the beginning of that painstaking analysis of the methods and principles of social case work which must obtain generally before social case workers can call their chosen field a profession. Miss Richmond's book deals exclusively with social diagnosis, treatment being omitted except in the sense that all diagnosis is a part of treatment. A volume on Social Case Treatment is therefore opportune, espe cially in view of the urgent need at this time of an authoritative statement of the best thought and practice in the field of treatment, because of the many social problems incident to the war. While the war may have created no new type Of social problems, it has increased them many fold and has given some entirely new settings. The inevitable dislocation of industrial life with its migrations of workers, the disruption of family life in many homes following the departure of the father or son for war service, the readjustment to industrial life of the soldier returning from the front, possibly' crippled, or handicapped by blindness, all make a knowledge of the principles and methods of social case treatment of paramount importance.
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