A swift messenger to the nation
Subtitle: selected papers on training America's social workers 1944-1980
By: Milton Wittman, DSW, USPHS
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: [publisher not identified]
Published: 2014
Place of publication: United States]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 165
ISBN-13: 9780991643103
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Social work education; Social service; Mental health services; Service social; Étude et enseignement; Services de santé mentale
Description: From 1947 until his retirement in 1979, Milton Wittman served as an officer in the US Public Health Service and the National Institute of Mental Health, where he headed the Social Work Training Branch to support social work education at universities throughout the United States. He was also a life-long member and supporter of the National Association of Social Workers. At both NIMH and NASW he successfully championed professional recognition and parity for social workers providing clinical and community mental health services. His work included a special two-year appointment in the Surgeon General's office to promote better understanding of social work within the Public Health Service. This memorial volume is a selection of his published and unpublished work. His colleagues, Ruth Knee, Margaret Daniel, Katherine Kendall, and Elizabeth Vourlekis, made the selection from Milton's many articles and wrote thoughtful introductions to each of the four chosen themes. -- taken from the letter enclosed with the book
Notes: "Copyright by Dr. Friedner D. Wittman 2014"--Title page verso.

The full collection of Milton Wittman's papers and publications was deposited in the Social Welfare History Archive of the University of Minnesota.

Includes bibliographical references.

Complementary copies distributed to schools of social work and to the awardees of the Knee/Wittman Award of the NASW Foundation by the children of Milton Wittman: Friedner D. Wittman, Brendel W. Lang, Peretz D. Wittman, Davida W. Adelberg.
Table of contents: title: Part 1: Highlights of a professional career. 1. From reveille to tattoo : a forty year retrospective (1979) ; 2. Case work in a military setting (1944) ; 3. The social worker in a bureaucracy (1974); title: Part 2: Manpower and training (mental health, health services, social welfare). 4. Some objectives in training for psychiatric social work (1948) ; 5. Meeting the manpower crisis in staffing the mental health facilities : the role of the federal government (1963) ; 6. Personnel adequate to social welfare responsibility (1964) ; 7. Taking a hard look at social welfare manpower : a review of major issues and problems (1969) ; 8. Feast or famine : the future for doctoral education in social work (1976) ; 9. Some reflections on new developments in mental health manpower : a social work perspective (1977); title: Part 3: Mental health and social work education. 10. Education for community mental health practice : problems and prospects (1958) ; 11. The place of social work research in U.S. social policy development (1966) ; 12. The changing role of the psychiatrist in social work education (1967) ; 13. Social work manpower for the health services : problems and prospects (1974) ; 14. The psychosocial use of space: crucial issues in physical environment, social space, and mental health as part of planning for integrated human services (1977); title: Part 4: Prevention : concepts and policies. 15. Application of knowledge about prevention in social work education and practice (1976) ; 16. The challenge of primary prevention to social work : past, present, and future directions (1980); title: Appendices. Curriculum vitae (1983) ; Book proposal : "Preventive social work : theory and practice" (1982) ; Obituary, February 25, 1994 ; Memorial service notes (March 1995) ; Lyrics of the song "The ultimate result" (1944).