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Rethinking the clinical vs. social reform debate: a dialectical approach to defining social work in the 21st century

Thompson, John BrandonUniversity of Kansas2012

There is a historical tension in social work between the clinical and social reform perspectives. The original goal for this dissertation was to offer pragmatism as a philosophical orientation that would make sense of these two seemingly disparate perspectives by explaining how they may coexist. A …

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