The Psychiatric Social Worker and the Collaborative Process in the Treatment of Hospitalized Psychiatric Patients A Survey of the Contributions of the Various Professions to Multi-Discipline Therapy at the New York Psychiatric Institute (1955) With Emphasis on the Function of the Caseworker as a Member of the Team
Abstract
A herculean challenge confronts social work in the present movement toward cohesion in its varied professional forms, organizations and in professional practice itself. The American Association of Psychiatric Social Workers has been examining its specialization on the basis of function and process as these apply to areas of practice, supervision, teaching, administration, research and education. One of the attempts to consider a number of theoretically defined problems in the practice of psychiatric social work was at the Dartmouth Conference in 1949. The purpose of this Conference was to "review, reconsider, and formulate concepts and standards in relation to education for psychiatric social work." It was at the Dartmouth Conference that the members of the workshops identified the collaborative process as one aspect of psychiatric social work which distinguishes it from other fields of social work. Too, proficiency in the collaborative process has been made a prerequisite for graduation in the psychiatric social work sequence.
Subject Area
Psychology|Social work
Recommended Citation
Weber, Ruth E, "The Psychiatric Social Worker and the Collaborative Process in the Treatment of Hospitalized Psychiatric Patients A Survey of the Contributions of the Various Professions to Multi-Discipline Therapy at the New York Psychiatric Institute (1955) With Emphasis on the Function of the Caseworker as a Member of the Team" (1955). ETD Collection for Fordham University. AAI31097060.
https://research.library.fordham.edu/dissertations/AAI31097060
