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This 3 page paper reviews the history of the discipline and applies that history to the challenges we face today. The advantages of pursuing an MSW and joining professional organizations are reviewed as well. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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listed below. Citation styles constantly change, and these examples may not contain the most recent updates. The History of Social Work Research Compiled
by 10/2010 Please
According to the National Association of Social Workers (NASW), the first social work class was offered at Columbia University in 1898.
Indeed, Mary Richmond had started classes of her own through the Baltimore Charity Organization even earlier than that. Women like Jane Addams were considered social worker pioneers.
In 1931 Addams won the Noble Prize (one of the first women to have ever done so) for establishing settlement houses in Chicago (NASW, 2010).
Social work as a theory, of course, existed long before that first formal class. Priests and ministers, in fact, were among the first social workers. In
early Christian tradition these professionals tended to the needs of the disadvantaged just as social workers are charged with tending to those needs today. The Elizabethan poor laws, first
established in the 1601, delineated the way the poor were dealt with for centuries. Today social work has
both changed from what it was in the earlier years of its history and stayed dramatically the same. Whether social workers were working with the poor and destitute of
Elizabethan times or with soldiers from the Iraq war who are suffering post traumatic stress disorder, many of the same tenets are in play.
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