Discover new books on Goodreads
Meet your next favorite book
Mindfulness is a perspective that weds your capacity for self-observation with your instinct of self-compassion. It is therefore your ability to observe yourself from an objective and self-accepting viewpoint. It is a key function of a
...more
“Social workers should not be secular priests in the church of individual repair; they should be the caretakers of the conscience of the community. They should not ask, “Does it feel good to you?” They should help communities create good.”
― Unfaithful Angels: How Social Work Has Abandoned its Mission
― Unfaithful Angels: How Social Work Has Abandoned its Mission
“RASSW published its first public position paper in February 1976 on the issue of licensure. Placing the issue in the broader context of the economic crisis, the paper addressed three questions: (1) the role of NASW; (2) whether licensing of social workers was racist; and (3) the relationship of licensure to service quality and accountability.”
― The Road Not Taken: A History of Radical Social Work in the United States
― The Road Not Taken: A History of Radical Social Work in the United States
“The major function of social work is concerned with helping people perform their normal life tasks by providing information and knowledge, social support, social skills, and social opportunities; it is also concerned with helping people deal with interference and abuse from other individuals and groups, with physical and mental disabilities, and with overburdening responsibilities they have for others. Most important, social work’s objective is to strengthen the community’s capacities to solve problems through development of groups and organizations, community education, and community systems of governance and control over systems of social care. The concern of psychotherapy is with helping people to deal with feelings, perceptions, and emotions that prevent them from performing their normal life tasks because of impairment or insufficient development of emotional and cognitive functions that are intimately related to the self. Social workers help people make use of and develop community and social resources to build connections with others and reduce alienation and isolation; psychotherapists help people to alter, reconstruct, and improve the self.”
― Unfaithful Angels: How Social Work Has Abandoned its Mission
― Unfaithful Angels: How Social Work Has Abandoned its Mission
“Social workers must be educated on the major political and economic issues to fight effectively for clients’ needs. Major social welfare issues and programs must be examined from a class point of view. Human services are a right, not a privilege. Social welfare needs should be a government priority, not military spending or corporate profits. Social action, in concert with others, is necessary to bring about basic changes. Racism, sexism, and other divisive tools must be exposed and eliminated (RASSW, 1974).”
― The Road Not Taken: A History of Radical Social Work in the United States
― The Road Not Taken: A History of Radical Social Work in the United States
“psychotherapy in general and strongly opposed to its use as the major mode of social work practice, we begin with the assumption that both social work and psychotherapy serve important functions in modern life, although neither is fulfilling these functions very well. We believe that social work has abandoned its mission to help the poor and oppressed and to build communality. Instead, many social workers are devoting their energies and talents to careers in psychotherapy. A significant proportion of social work professionals—about 40 percent—are in private practice, serving middle-class clients.,”
― Unfaithful Angels: How Social Work Has Abandoned its Mission
― Unfaithful Angels: How Social Work Has Abandoned its Mission
Kasandra’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Kasandra’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
More friends…
Favorite Genres
Polls voted on by Kasandra
Lists liked by Kasandra


























