Unemployment Research
| Author | Alan Whiffin |
| DOI | 10.1177/026455057502200206 |
| Date | 01 June 1975 |
| Published date | 01 June 1975 |
| Subject Matter | Articles |
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5.
The
development
of
an
awareness
of
responsibility
for
contributing
from
one’s
own
professional
knowledge
and
experience
to
the
pre-
vention
of
social
problems
and
to
the
improvement
of
social
policies
and
programmes.
Conclusion
I
think
that
the
essence
of
what
I
have
been
trying
to
convey
in
these
remarks
was
well
summed
up
by
Dame
Eileen
Younghusband
when
she
wrote:
&dquo;Modern
social
work
practice
is
indeed,
like
modern
medicine,
largely
based
on
skill
and
imagination
in
the
timing
and
use
of
resources,
both
separately
and
in
combination
with
each
other.
Social
workers
themselves
are
of
course
one
of
these
resources,
if
they
have
time
and
capacity
to
listen
and
to
hear-to
be
reliably
alongside
people,
to
understand
what
it
feels
like
to
be
in
their
situation-and
why-and
to
convey
some
kind
of
strength
that
makes
it
possible
for
the
other
person
to
begin
to
cope....&dquo;5
REFERENCES
1.
Tillich,
P.
On
the
Boundary,
Collins,
1967.
See
also:
"Boundaries",
A.
C.
Robin
Skynner,
Social
Work
Today,
Vol.
5,
No.
10,
1974.
2.
For
an
elaboration
of
some
of
these
issues
see
Burton’s
address
to
the
British
Association
of
Social
Workers
on
25.9.74.
Reported
in
Social
Work
Today,
31.10.74.
3.
Quoted
in:
Wasserman,
H.
"Some
Thoughts
about
Teaching
Social
Casework
Today."
Smith
College
Studies
in
Social
Work,
Vol.
XLIII,
No. 2,
1973
(p.120).
4.
Rennison,
G.
A.
Man
on
His
Own,
Melbourne
University
Press,
1962.
5.
Younghusband,
E.
"The
Future
of
Social
Work."
Social
Work
Today,
Vol.
4,
No. 2,
1973.
This
article
is
based
on
two
talks
given
at
Study
Days
in
Leicester
recently.
Unemployment
Research
ALAN
WHIFFIN
Merseyside
FOR
a
period
of
years,
I
worked
as a
probation
officer
in
Kirkby,
a
post
world
war
two
overspill
town
for
Liverpool,
with
a
population
of
some
60,000.
Kirkby
has
presented
a
number
of
social
problems
particularly
in
the
field
of
juvenile
delinquency.
There
has
always
been
a
high
level
of
unemployment
in
the
town.
Indeed
the
North
West
region
generally
has
been . subject
to
a
number
of
Governmental
Development
pro-
grammes
because
of
a
higher
than
average
unemployment
rate.
Inevitably
the
Probation
Service
in
Kirkby
has
encountered
the
problem
of
unemployment
amongst
its
clients.
However
the
specific
extent
of
the
problem
experienced
by
the
Service
had
never
been
subject
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