Notable Achievements
- Proposed the philosophy that social work demands a firm intellectual base in the social sciences.
- Pioneered an orientation toward public agencies as well as private charities.
- Offered psychiatric course work as early as 1912.
- Began publishing Social Service Review, the first scholarly journal in the field of social work, in 1927.
- Laid the foundation for the child-related provisions of the nation’s Social Security system through research on the status of mothers and children in the 1930s.
- Developed the generic casework curriculum that became a model for social work education.
- Professor Charlotte Towle published Common Human Needs, the classic manual for public assistance workers that linked psychiatric theories to social work practice (1945).
- Developed the first social policy sequence in the country (1968).
- Applied behavior modification to casework.
- Under the supervision of Helen Harris Perlman, SSA developed the task-centered approach to practice.
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