Title

The Poet/Practitioner: A Paradigm for the Profession

Publication Date

2006

Document Type

Article

Abstract

This article explores a new paradigm or model for the professional social worker: The poet/practitioner. The training and practice of the poet are congruent with many aspects of social work practice. An examination of the practice of the poet, and the congruence of these practices to social work, reveals a paradigm with the capacity to focus social workers on the essential values of our profession. This paradigm, which highlights the humanistic, creative, and socially conscience role of the social work practitioner, may be particularly important today given the medicalization of social problems and the conservitization of society.

Publication Title

Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare

Volume

33

Issue

3

First Page

29

Last Page

50

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