TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gravière,Lilian
TI  - How can a social worker become legitimate? Mary Richmond’s reply to Abraham Flexner
PY  - 2014///.
							
N1  - 4
N2  - This article aims to show that Mary E. Richmond’s work was strongly motivated by her desire to legitimate the social worker as a professional. Responding to Abraham Flexner’s criticisms, she developed a comprehensive strategy which made reference to Andrew Abbott’s notion of a system of professions. The development of the method of social casework is the central feature of this strategy. The author asks whether the professionalizing model, distinctive to twentieth-century social work, is historically sustainable
UR  - https://shs.cairn.info/journal-vie-sociale-2014-4-page-85?lang=en&redirect-ssocas=7080
ER  -