The Probation Officer's Needs
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casework in the nineteen fifties has brought increasing recognition of the common basis which social workers in many different branches are using in their work with clients. Modern training has been aimed at defining and teaching these common elements and applying them through casework supervision to the particular settings in which the student is working?probation, family casework, almoning, child care, etc. This development clearly owes a major debt to psychiatry and psychoanalysis in teaching us about mental growth and development and the origins of deviant behaviour. The debt has been so great, and the social worker's admiration and envy of the "magic" of psychiatry so immense that, until recently, it has been felt that
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