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The Smith College School for Social Work is a professional school within Smith College that provides graduate social work education to students around the world. In its nearly century-long history,〔http://www.smith.edu/ssw/〕 the school has educated approximately 7000 clinical social workers, including many leading social work intellectuals and trailblazers such as Bertha Capen Reynolds,〔http://www.smith.edu/ssw/acad_bcrfellowship.php〕 Florence Hollis,〔http://www.naswfoundation.org/pioneers/h/hollis.html〕 and Lydia Rapoport,〔http://www.naswfoundation.org/pioneers/r/rapoport.htm〕 all of whom have been enshrined as eminent pioneers of the field.〔〔〔 The school is ranked 16th in the US News and World Report ranking of graduate programs in social work.〔http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-health-schools/social-work-rankings〕 == History == Smith College School for Social Work originated from an emergency course given in the Summer of 1918-1919 to prepare social workers for service in military hospitals treating soldiers with “shell shock” returning from the First World War.〔Neilson, W. (1919) The Smith College experiment in training for psychiatric social work. New York: National Committee for Mental Hygiene〕 Civilian psychiatric hospitals were already using social workers to assist physicians in obtaining patients’ social histories, considered a necessary ingredient for sound diagnosis, and to aid the patients in their “social adjustment” back to their communities after release from care.〔 The Smith College course was the first formal training program for social workers to become trained as “psychiatric social workers,” specializing in social psychiatry.〔 The program was created by the combined forces of Dr. E.E. Southard, Director of the Boston Psychopathic Hospital, who was planning an emergency training course at the hospital, and Smith College President William Allan Nielson, who was looking for ways to use College facilities and equipment during the quiet months of summer to aid in the war effort.〔 With financial support from the Permanent Charity Fund of Boston and under the auspices of the National Committee for Mental Hygiene, which Southard headed, the training course began in July, 1918 with sixty-three students.〔 The course became a permanent program in 1919.〔Jarrett, M.C. (1921) Smith College Conducts Training School for Social Work. Chicago: The Modern Hospital. Vol XVI (6) pp 566, 580〕 Dr. F. Stuart Chapin, Smith College professor of Sociology was appointed the first Director, with Mary C. Jarrett, Chief of Social Services at Boston Psychopathic Hospital, and one of the founders of the emergency trainings held in 1918, appointed as the Associate Director.〔 The newly established Smith College Training School for Social Work offered four training courses: medical social work, psychiatric social work, community service, and an advanced course in child welfare for individuals already engaged in social work with children.〔 The philosophy and techniques of social casework, the hallmark of contemporary social work, undergirded all four courses of training. Classes in psychology and sociology were required of all students.〔 The eight-week didactic program was held on Smith College campus with clinical demonstrations taking place in the Northampton State Hospital for the Insane. Students then went on to six months of practical training in hospitals and social agencies in Boston, Philadelphia, New York, and Baltimore. They returned to Smith College for a second eight-week didactic program the following summer.〔 Following the success of Smith’s initial emergency training course, several schools, including University of Pennsylvania School of Social Work, The New York School of Social Work (now Columbia), University of Chicago, and Johns Hopkins University instituted psychiatric social work training programs.〔Jarrett, M.C. (1927) Present Conditions in Education for Psychiatric Social Work. Oxford: Social Forces. Vol. 6 (2) pp 221-229〕 The American Association of Psychiatric Social Workers (AAPSW) was established in 1921,〔http://www.naswdc.org/nasw/history.asp〕 and was absorbed into the National Association of Social Work in 1955, along with the other major social work associations.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Smith College School for Social Work」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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