Overview
0000 What should be the kick off for the history of social work ?
Elizabeth Fry 1817 Elizabeth Fry
Angel of the prisons
1819 Thomas Chalmers
`To help the poor to help themselves`
Octavia Hill 1864 Octavia Hill
Social housing and home visits
Arnold Toynbee (1852-1881) 1884 Arnold Toynbee
University Settlement
Jane Addams (1860-1935) 1889 Jane Addams
Settlement work in North America
Joseph Rowntree (1836-1925) 1899 Joseph Rowntree
A dynasty of philanthropy and research on social problems
Mary Ellen Richmond (1861-1928) 1917 Mary Ellen Richmond
The founding mother of social casework
Alice Salomon 1929 Alice Salomon
Internationalisation of social work education
cover Down and out in Paris and London 1933 Orwell, Griffin and others
The (in)humanity behind statistics
Cartoon symbolising self help 1935 Alcoholics Anonymous
The emergence of self help groups
Alice in Wonderland with dodo by John Tenniel 1936 The dodo-bird and social work
what matters? Interventions or common factors?
sir William Henry Beveridge, the architect of the welfare state 1942 William Henry Beveridge
The architect of the welfare state
Carl Rogers 1951 Carl Rogers
The importance of empathy
Jane Jacobs 1961 Jane Jacobs
Urban visionary
Erving Goffman 1961 Erving Goffman
Total institutions
1969 Sherry Arnstein
Ladder of participation
1969 Michael Lipsky
Street level bureaucrats and discretionary power
Paulo Freire 1970 Paulo Freire
Pedagogy of the oppressed
a man scratching his head, symbolising doubt 1973 Joel Fischer
The father of professional doubt
logo of a wheelchair, accessibility 1975 Fundamental Principles of Disability
A paradigm shift towards a social model
cover radical social work 1975 1975 Radical social work
Ann Hartman 1978 Ann Hartman
Family therapy, ecomaps and genograms
Charles Murray 1984 Charles Murray
A critique on social work and the welfare state
Question marks 9999 What should be the end of the history of social work?
  
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