Florence Hollis: An Historical Study of Her Writings With Emphasis on Casework Treatment Methods, 1930–1960
Abstract
Background of the Study. “We have the diagnosis now how do we treat?” The date was March 9th, 1961. Twenty-five, second year students attending a class in Family Casework at the New York School of Columbia University plus myself, an outsider, had just heard one of the leading authorities in the field of social work ask this question. The authority - Dr. Florence Hollis; the question - the subject of my dissertation.Throughout the two years of formal graduate education, in the classroom and in the field this writer has felt a personal need to clarify in her own mind the subject of casework treatment, its methods and techniques. It is accepted by the writer that the casework process ; study, diagnosis, and treatment is a continuing process, that one effects the other and that while the facts are being gathered and evaluated treatment is being carried on - however, it seems as though treatment frequently suffers at the expense of the other two areas. This loss is particularly felt in the classroom where the majority of time seems to be spent in the study of symptoms and the inferences and deductions which can be arrived at from these.
Subject Area
Psychology|Social work
Recommended Citation
Ramsdell, Ruth A, "Florence Hollis: An Historical Study of Her Writings With Emphasis on Casework Treatment Methods, 1930–1960" (1961). ETD Collection for Fordham University. AAI31096988.
https://research.library.fordham.edu/dissertations/AAI31096988
