Author Retains CopyrightShort, Celia Ruth2011-10-102022-10-312011-10-102022-10-3119771977https://ir.wgtn.ac.nz/handle/123456789/26836In 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.pdfen-NZhttps://www.wgtn.ac.nz/library/about-us/policies-and-strategies/copyright-for-the-researcharchiveSocial workInterventionRole 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 workersTextAll rights, except those explicitly waived, are held by the Author