Social Work And Jewish Values Basic Areas Of Consonance And Conflict

Author : Alfred J. Kutzik
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330346426
Total Pages : 111 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (464 download)

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Download or read book Social Work and Jewish Values written by Alfred J. Kutzik and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-17 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Social Work and Jewish Values: Basic Areas of Consonance and Conflict The Value of Values. Both the profession of social work and the Jewish people of our country are now more concerned than ever before with clarifying what they consider to be their basic goals and the best means of attaining them, that is, defining their values. During the past decade increasing urgency has been expressed by both groups through many speeches and articles on the subject of values, but only in the last two years have there been concerted efforts to deal with the problems the subject entails. In 1957 the Curriculum Study of the Council on Social Work Education held a conference devoted to its special project on values and ethics. In 1958 the National Jewish Welfare Board and National Association of Jewish Center Workers had workshop sessions on Jewish values at their national conventions. This past fall the American Jewish Congress called for a national conference to consider the problem. However disparate they are in other respects, the profession of social work and the Jewish people share this unprecedented concern with values because of the stage of greater maturity each has reached in mid-century America. Social work has made great practical progress in the past three decades both qualitatively (competence and status) and quantitatively (numbers and organization). As is common with changing social institutions, there has not been commensurate ideological development. However, the "cultural lag" has been so pronounced and practical growth so rapid that the profession is now at a juncture where ideological progress is prerequisite to continued growth. As Werner Boehm has pointed out in an article presumably reflecting the majority opinion of those engaged in the curriculum study of which he is director: "No single, widely recognized, or generally accepted statement exists of the aims and purposes of the professional practice of social work... About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.