University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration - Notable Achievements

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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