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1 online resource |
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An American Social Worker In Italy; Acknowledgments; The Beginning; THE DIARY; February 5; February 7; February 8; February 12; February 13; February 19; February 20; February 21; February 22; February 24; February 25; February 27; March 2; March 3; March 6; March 10; March 11; March 12; March 13; March 15 (Florence); March 16 (Florence); March 20; March 21; March 22, 23, 24, and 25; March 27 through March 31; The Easter Holidays; April 7; April 9, 10, and 11; April 14; April 15 and 16; April 21; April 22; April 23; April 27 (Naples); April 28; April 29; April 30; May 1; May 12; May 13 |
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May 14 to May 20May 17; May 19; May 20; May 23; May 24; May 29; June 1; June 3, 4, and 5; June 9, 10, and 11; June 12; June 13; June 16; June 17 through June 24; June 25; June 27; June 28 to July 4; July 4; July 6; July 6, 7, and 8; Index; A; B; C; D; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W |
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Annotation An American Social Worker in Italy was first published in 1961. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. Mrs. Charnley, an American social worker, spent six months in Italy on a Fulbright grant as a consultant to Italian child welfare agencies and schools of social work. Here, in diary form, she tells of her experiences during those months when she struggled to teach American social work principles to her Italian colleagues. The task was complicated not only by the need to communicate in a newly learned tongue but also by the necessity to tailor American casework philosophies to a vastly different culture. The story abounds in humor and pathos and, at the same time, offers rich information about Italy, its people, and its child-care methods and institutions. Mrs. Charnley points out that one Italian child in ten spends his first seventeen years in an institution. The nation's laws for the protection of children date back to the Caesars; even the most progressive of the social workers she met hoped for reforms only in terms of decades or centuries. Against this background, the situations in which she found herself were sometimes frustrating, often comic, always challenging. Her determination to help Italy's half-million institutionalized children took her behind the doors of many orphanages and convents, into close contact with the children and the nuns and priests who cared for them. She studied the records of social agencies, analyzed problems with their staffs, and lectured at social work schools |
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Includes index |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Children -- Institutional care -- Italy
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Child welfare -- Italy.
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Social workers -- Correspondence
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Human Services.
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Child welfare
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Children -- Institutional care
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Social workers
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Italy
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personal correspondence.
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Personal correspondence
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Personal correspondence.
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Correspondance privée.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780816661794 |
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0816661790 |
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9780816602254 |
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0816602255 |
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