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Role conflict following a change in professional ideology: a thesis which attempts to examine some of the conflicts heightened by the adoption of new “non-casework” roles by social workers
(Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 1977) Short, Celia Ruth
In the last twenty years Social Work has undergone an "agonising reappraisal" of itself (Grosser, 1969) in which the social worker's multi-faceted role as therapist, social advocate, professional and bureaucrat has been subjected to a rigorous test of relevancy. Social work's right to intervene, and its effectiveness in that intervention - in terms of its professional and bureaucratic structures and its methodological preferences - has been questioned. Through this, we have been brought to realise how our pre-occupation with methodological concerns over the period 1920-1960 has caused us to lose touch with major social issues of our time.