Developing Curricular Options in the Pursuit of Integration

Abstract

This paper identifies a number of divergent forces, within both the academic disciplines and the profession, that encourage and impede the achievement of a generically oriented social work profession. It concludes that, for the near future, the actual planning of the profession's development must proceed on the premise that the kind of generic social work possible is, at best, only partial and segmental in nature. Three types of partial generic social work practice are discussed and related to the emerging issues associated with the structure and quality of social work education.