Social Worker Discusses Role
The role of social work in preventive psychiatry was the topic of Richard E. Benson, chief social worker of the division of preventive psychiatry of the Meninginger foundation, last night.
Speaking at a meeting of a social work club he spoke on the change of the psychiatric trend from cure to prevention.
"IT IS OF no real consequence if there is such a thing as mental health, but there is much concern to prevent people from having social conflicts." Benson said.
"People who work with the disturbed and the mentally ill have a mental health task themselves," Benson said, referring to the people in the social work department without a college degree.
THESE PEOPLE have no criteria for measuring a job well done, therefore experiencing anxiety and uncertainty over their work.
Benson stressed that poverty could best be treated in the home, not the clinic, and that economic well-being is the core of social welfare.
The necessity of self-realization and economic well-being are the major components in social work, he said.
"SOCIAL WORKERS must resolve, or adjust to, the ambivalent attitude of our culture towards poverty and dependency. There will always be some group, as long as the human mind remains as it is, who will always be downtrouted," Benson concluded.
Former KU Student Jailed for Obscenity
Former KU student, George E. Kimball, Leavenworth, was sentenced to 60 days in the county jail this Friday.
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