Changing: the future – social work in wider society
This chapter reflects on why social work and social workers continue to be relevant to society on local, national, and international levels. It suggests how the process of looking back across the past 30 years demonstrates how much has changed and will continue to change. However, the chapter contends that this in itself indicates a form of continuity. Although some observers may continue to predict the demise of real social work, the core activities of the occupation, involving a tension between caring or controlling, have, it seems, always existed. Yet, the value of compassion, in whatever setting, is what social workers always seem to want to exemplify and to encourage in themselves and others by working alongside people.
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The Mount Sinai international enhancement of social work leadership program: The past and the future
2018 ◽
Vol 57
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pp. 406-421
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The Past
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