Under the Cover of Kindness: The Invention of Social Work

ISBN-10: 0813917131
ISBN-13: 9780813917139
Category: Social case work
Pages: 216
Language: English
Published: 1997
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Author: Leslie Margolin

Description

A well written, thoughtful challenge to the honored notion of social work as an institutional instrument of caring. Margolin (counselor education, U. of Iowa) doesn't pull punches in this assessment of the history of social work, pointing out through case records that the field developed an access to the private space of clients, fostered an imposition of middle class standards on the "underclass," disguised a language of power as one of sympathy, and eventually created the current atmosphere of "doublespeak" in which workers burn out or decide to move to private practice. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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