Problems of the Social Worker

was opened October 1, 1909. The necessity for establishing a personal relationship with the families of the children seen at the Clinic, created an imperative demand for social work with its attendant records of home conditions. The duties of a social worker are both complicated and delicate, connected as they are with mental or physical suffering, conditions which require the nicest understanding and the most tactful and sympathetic attitude. In connection with the Psychological Clinic these qualities of mind and heart are peculiarly essential because the cases handled are those of children suffering from mental or moral, as well as physical defects. Acting usually upon the advice of a physician, school principal, or teacher, parents bring their children to the Psychological Clinic as to a place of last resort, in the hope that the Clinic will offer some suggestion