Carrying a Banner for Psychiatric Social Work: Essays, Perspectives, and Maida Herman Solomon's Oral Memoir

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Old Heidelberg Press, 2004 - 132 pages
The memoir of her career by a Boston woman, Maida Herman Solomon (1891-1988), who worked to build a profession of psychiatric social work (later also clinical social work), in a unique collaboration with her prominent psychiatrist husband. Coming of age in the Progressive era, Maida Solomon was a rebel who fused her interests both imaginatively and constructively throughout her life. She was founding President of the American Association of Psychiatric Social Workers in 1926; and she helped found the Massachusetts Academy of Psychiatric Social Work in the 1970's. The Solomons' book, Syphilis of the Innocent, from 1922 is a classic of the field; and Maida Solomon's study of the field from the 1940's was used as a text in schools of social work throughout the country. Her research group in the 1960's and '70's published many seminal books and articles. During a long career as a social worker and professor of social work, she blended mentoring, program development, research, and work on the institutional development of her profession, while supporting the training of social workers in a human service philosophy and methods that enabled the emergence of a fully modern professional social work.In addition to the memoir, the volume includes historical andother background material and interpretive essays.
 

Contents

Document No 1 The Status of Social Work
13
Document No 5 Tact and Judgment
43
The Oral Memoir of Maida Herman Solomon
49
Document No 6 Maida Solomon
64
Notes on the Professional Partnership
93
Document No 8 Maida Solomon
107
Selected Bibliography of Works by
118
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