Great Britain
In Great Britain, clinical social work suffered a decline after the 1980s following an internal professional battle regarding 'radical social work,' which attacked the alleged psychologising and individualising tendencies of 'casework'. Up to this point psychiatric social work had been a strong tradition with roots in psychoanalytic casework and psychoanalytic psychotherapy. Today, there is still a hunger among new entrants to social work, and many experienced practitioners, for a therapeutically oriented style of practice, but few training programmes offer in-depth experience or tuition of this kind. The Tavistock Clinic in London remains the leading centre for the study of clinically oriented social work and offers programmes up to and including Professional Doctorate level. The Journal of Social Work Practice represents the main organ of research and scholarly output in this area in the UK.
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