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Articles: Minority Content

Social Work Education and Services for the Handicapped: Unfulfilled Responsibilities—Unrealized Opportunities

Pages 48-55 | Published online: 30 May 2013
 

Abstract

The purpose of the paper is twofold: (1) to provide evidence that social work education has not met its responsibility to the handicapped, and (2) to challenge educators to prepare students more adequately for this area of service. Data from a 1979 survey of social work schools is used to illustrate the status of curricular response to the needs of the handicapped. A curriculum study conducted in 1959 by the CSWE is used to compare current and past responses to this special population. We conclude that social work education has, since the 1950s, failed to respond adequately to the needs of this group. The Commission on Educational Planning drafts of the CSWE Curriculum Policy Statement are cited to demonstrate continuing neglect of this special population. Suggestions are presented for enriching curricula and providing leadership in this area.

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