How the CSWE’s definition of "everyone" masks an ideologically exclusive, DEI-driven vision of who belongs in the social work profession.
There never should have been clinical social work. Social work is social work. I believe it happened because the females in hospitals threatened their male doctor bosses for more money and status. So, they threw them a bone.
I think Specht and Courtney make a similar argument critical of clinical social work in their classic 1994 book "Unfaithful Angels: How Social Work Has Abandoned its Mission." See: https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2245&context=jssw
What is we had a real psychotherapy profession that helped people?
There never should have been clinical social work. Social work is social work. I believe it happened because the females in hospitals threatened their male doctor bosses for more money and status. So, they threw them a bone.
I think Specht and Courtney make a similar argument critical of clinical social work in their classic 1994 book "Unfaithful Angels: How Social Work Has Abandoned its Mission." See: https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2245&context=jssw
What is we had a real psychotherapy profession that helped people?