This collection of previously published and unpublished papers provides an illuminating guide to the many changes the social work profession has undergone in the last 50 years. As Katherine A. Kendall states in the preface, Herman Stein's own career could serve as a mirror of the way social work education progressed from a major investment in psychoanalytically oriented casework to the multifaceted preparation for practice that it enjoys today. Readers will find in the book's 17 chapters evidence of social work's movements in many of these directions. In Chapter 3, for example, ''Social Work's Developmental and Change Functions,'' Stein contends that the profession's effectiveness as a partner in social development and system change rests on its recognized competence in direct service. From this social workers gain first-hand knowledge of the problems to be addressed and the people served. This baseline theme, as old as the profession itself, is given scintillating articulation by Stein, who also argues that real social progress can be achieved only by collaborating with other disciplines and stakeholders to effect change.
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