Looking Back to See Ahead

by Perlman, Helen Harris

• ISBN13: 9780226660370
• ISBN10: 0226660370
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1989-11-01
• Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr

Summary

In over sixty years of involvement in social workas practitioner, supervisor, teacher, consultant, and authorHelen Harris Perlman has become all but a legend. She has served on national policy committees, lectured around the world, and participated in pioneering social work programs and research. Her wide-ranging experiences enrich her vision of the social work profession: typically she is able to see the forest and the trees. Grounded in psychodynamic and social theory, lucid, forthright, and compassionate, her writings serve to inspire and guide experienced practitioners, teachers, and present-day students. Looking Back to See Aheadoffers pieces chosen for their centrality to Perlman's thinking on some of the major problems of social work practice and education. To each essay she has added her current, informal comments. Refreshingly original is the section "After Hours," in which she captures, in sketches and verse, the humor and heartache that are inevitable in any profession that deals with hurt and troubled people.

Author Biography

Helen Harris Perlman is the Samuel Deutsch Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in the School of Social Service Administration at the University of Chicago. Her many published works include Social Casework: A Problem-Solving Process; Persona: Social Role and Personality; and Relationship: The Heart of Helping People; and, as editor, Helping: Charlotte Towle on Social Work and Social Casework.

Table of Contents

Introduction to What's Ahead

Some Old and New Perspectives

Casework: Its Uses and Misuses

On the Art of Caring

In Quest of Coping

Freud: An Appreciation

The Client as Worker: A Look at an Overlooked Role

Confessions, Concerns, and Commitments of an Ex-Clinical Social Worker

Teaching--Gladly and Otherwise

The Charge to the Casework Sequence

The Use of the Discussion Method

Values: Believing and Doing in Professional Education

"". . . and Gladly Teach""

After Hour

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