Tales of wayward girls and immoral women : case records and the professionalization of social work
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Tales of wayward girls and immoral women : case records and the professionalization of social work
University of Illinois Press, c1998
- : cloth : alk. paper
- : pbk : alk. paper
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [227]-248) and index
Contents of Works
- "I'll be watching you" : the advent of the case record
- Case records and professional legitimation
- The rescue of "juvenile fragments" : the case of "Hazel"
- To make a case : tales of detection
- Tales of protection : personal appeals and professional friendship
- Tales of accomplishment : social work and the art of public persuasion
Description and Table of Contents
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: cloth : alk. paper ISBN 9780252023972
Description
Writing case records was central to the professionalization of social work, a task that by its very nature "created clients, authorities, problems, and solutions". In Tales of Wayward Girls and Immoral Women, Karen W. Tice argues that when early social workers wrote about their clients they transformed individual biographies into professional representations. Because the social workers were attuned to the intricacies of language, case records became focal points for debates on science, art, representation, objectivity, realism, and gender in public charity and reform.Tice uses 150 case records of early practitioners from a number of reform organizations and considers myriad books on the specifics of case recording to analyze the competing models of record-keeping, both in the field and outside it.
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: pbk : alk. paper ISBN 9780252066986
Description
Writing case records was central to the professionalization of social work, a task that by its very nature "created clients, authorities, problems, and solutions." In Tales of Wayward Girls and Immoral Women, Karen W. Tice argues that when early social workers wrote about their clients they transformed individual biographies into professional representations. Because the social workers were attuned to the intricacies of language, case records became focal points for debates on science, art, representation, objectivity, realism, and gender in public charity and reform. Tice uses 150 case records of early practitioners from a number of reform organizations and considers myriad books on the specifics of case recording to analyze the competing models of record-keeping, both in the field and outside it.
"An original and important study, this is the first major work I know of to carry out a contextual analysis of case records and to discuss the role case records have played in the development of social work." -- Leslie Leighninger, author of Social Work, Social Welfare, and American Society
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