Casework effectiveness: a new look at the research evidence

Abstract

Katherine M. Wood, Ph.D., is Associate Professor, Graduate School of Social Work, Rutgers-The State University, New Brunswick, New Jersey. This article is based in part on the author's Ph.D. dissertation at Rutgers. In recent years writers have quesSURVEY OF THE LITERATURE tioned repeatedly whether casework, A survey of the literature from 1956 . through 1973 located a total of 53 cial work profession, is dead (Briar, r ~ . ,v studies of the effectiveness of social the major practice method of the so