Before revision: Later in the 1920s, with the mental hygiene movement school social work was concerned with treating nervous disorders and behavioral problems in difficult children and prevention of social maladjustment, this was the beginning of therapeutic role for school social workers.Costin, 1978 During the great depression in the 1930s, like school counseling, school social work also declined.Areson,1933 The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 sought social work efforts to be initiated in the schools.
After revision: Later in the 1920s, with the mental hygiene movement school social work was concerned with treating nervous disorders and behavioral problems in difficult children and prevention of social maladjustment, this was the beginning of therapeutic role for school social workers.Costin, 1978 During the Great Depression in the 1930s, like school counseling, school social work also declined.Areson,1933 The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 sought social work efforts to be initiated in the schools.