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Article Excerpt
No problem can be solved by the same level of consciousness that created it.
Albert Einstein
At the February 2007 Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) Board of Directors meeting, Dean Kay Hoffman, CSWE president, opened by making the statement, "Social work is out of step with the most critical social issues and problems confronting us in our society. We have lost ground to other professions and are moving down a path of irrelevance. Unless we change, social work may not exist in 30 years."
I reside in Hawai'i, a place far removed from the political nucleus of U.S. society, which also implies some distance from cutting-edge issues in social work. Yet, I found Dean Hoffman's words bold and profoundly resonating. In the Pacific/Asia arena social developments of capacious proportions are not within social work's rubric of primary concern, such as human trafficking, to name one. Rather than fully concentrating on these critically important issues, too many schools of social work continue to focus on producing clinicians, many of whom opt for private practice; or pressed by intense labor force demands and threats of declassification, too many schools of social work mass produce graduates to fill position slots in the public sector. In addition, social work education and practice face several systemic and...
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