Study of the role of the emerging professional "Child Welfare Worker" as social case worker in the post-war Japanese child welfare program
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Abstract
This study was made to analyze the function of the "Child
Welfare Worker," who is the first caseworker in the history of
social work in Japan. It is traditional for our historians in
this field to describe Japanese social work practice as starting to modernize itself on a systematic scientific basis about three decadee ago, particularly during the past decade with
the rise of socialism. However, we have never had caseworkers
using a well-recognized social work technique before. All
books and articles in magazines concerning social work were
concerned with social service institutions but no, or at best
casual, attention was paid to the skills of the workers who
were working with their clients in connection with these
institutions. This new Child Welfare Program that currently is focusing upon the metrhod, skills and techniques of the
case worker is something unique, unheard of and unknowm to
our traditional social work practice, even more so to the
people in the community. But it seems to be growing rapidly
and is receiving increased attention both from the social
work profession and from the community.
This study is being made to examine this new setting in
the perspective of its past, present and future through a
conscious and critical analysis of twenty cases carried by
these new case workers.
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