Authority Used as a Treatment Tool With Children Unlawfully Absent From School: A Study of Ten Cases Treated in the Bureau of Attendance of the New York City Board of Education, From 1955-1957
Abstract
The writer is employed as an Attendance Officer by the Bureau of Attendance of the New York City Board of Education. He was privileged to be selected one of six attendance officers as the first group to attend the Fordham School of Social Service. The group was trained as graduate social caseworkers as a part of the Bureau program to increase and extend its services by preparing members of its staff to work on a casework basis with children and families who have problems, the severity of which hampers adequate treatment by other Bureau resources. In many ways the program is a new departure for social work as well. The question whether an agency can, at the same time, persistently enforce laws committed to its charge and practice social casework has been under scrutiny already in several areas of social work and social agency practice.
Subject Area
Educational administration|Education|Social work
Recommended Citation
Rosenthal, Daniel, "Authority Used as a Treatment Tool With Children Unlawfully Absent From School: A Study of Ten Cases Treated in the Bureau of Attendance of the New York City Board of Education, From 1955-1957" (1958). ETD Collection for Fordham University. AAI30557748.
https://research.library.fordham.edu/dissertations/AAI30557748
