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Describe the schism that developed between Jane Addams and Mary Richmond with respect to an understanding of the social work profession through policy advocacy and action. Jane Addams and Mary Richmond each made paramount changes to society by way of laying frameworks that affect social work today. Although they shared similar beginnings to the way they practice, their ideologies and definitions of what social work needed to be to make positive change evolved and became different from one another. The difference in their frameworks and chosen applications created a schism as each of them and the social workers they trained respectively, felt that their chosen practice of social work was the most effective way to create positive change. Jade Addams focused more on what we now call a macro practice. She saw that the environment had to change for the person to change and that lead her to focus on changes in larger systems with the goal that changing the larger system for the better would then better those living in the system. When I think of Mary Richmond I think of the TED talk we watched this week and the importance of connection and people’s stories. As a “home visiting” social worker, Richmond developed an appreciation of that connection and a desire to help individuals and families access services and that the community they were in being able to join together in the sense of mutual aid to improve their conditions and struggles. However, each woman understood that the specific changes in a society dictated the response from social work that was called for. The schism wasn’t the belief that either one had no value, but rather which one was the best for the job at hand. Whereas Addams believed that policy practice was the best route to widespread change, Richmond believed that engaging people and their communities were the fastest way to get to a positive change. Where this failed is that both are important in social work. Community problems require community interventions and when problems are as grand as they were during the age of industrialization, policy interventions are also necessary. Likewise, each of these frameworks and sections of practice help grows the other. Both lend well to implementing changes and restoring people and their environments to places of healthy coping and thriving. It harms us to see it as casework vs. reform when we need to have casework and reform (Thompson, et al 2019). Describe similar schisms that exist in contemporary social work. Similar schisms to those in the Richmond/Addams era exist today and for many the same reasons. However, I also believe that our own personal experiences, biases (inherent and otherwise), and world views make us create value-based judgments regardless of how impartial we try to be. These views lead us to practice social work in the area we feel is most beneficial. I also believe that a lack of funding for programs creates competition among social workers because the idea that we can all be successful is hard to wrap your mind around when we’ve seen such a scarcity of resources at all levels of practice. There is also such a growing need for clinical and micro social work that it has eclipsed the need for policy change. Politics have become a very scary, intimidating, and unmanageable thing in the last decade and social workers are steering clear of their involvement in that area of practice. Explain how contemporary schisms prevent social workers from fulfilling their ethical obligation(s). There are a variety of schisms in contemporary social work that exist as they did in the day of Richmond and Addams. Now these schisms are even greater divided by the specific issues facing social workers and the populations they serve, regardless of micro, macro, or mezzo level of practice. As social workers, we are not just called to, but our professional code of ethics is to help people in need and address social

problems (NASW, 2017). However, the divide between the levels of practice, the prioritization of one framework or theoretical foundation over another, and a chosen focus on individual issues create a situation where we are not fulfilling our ethical obligation to social justice. The last several years have shown how hurt and burdened people are, leading social workers to largely focus on individual problems in living and leaving policy practice to politicians. I also believe the divide in our country on nearly every issue and the tendency to lean towards extremism has lead social workers astray from policy practice and involvement in social justice issues. References: González, M.J., Gelman, C.R. Clinical Social Work Practice in the Twenty-First Century: A Changing Landscape. Clin Soc Work J 43, 257–262 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10615-015-0550-5 Jansson, B. S. (2017, March 10). Empowerment Series: Becoming An Effective Policy Advocate, 8th Edition. Cengage Learning. NASW (August 4, 2017).Code of Ethics.https://www.socialworkers.org/About/Ethics/Code-of- Ethics/Code-of-Ethics-English Thompson, John B.; Spano, Richard; and Koenig, Terry L. (2019) "Back to Addams and Richmond: Was Social Work Really a Divided House in the Beginning?" The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare: Vol. 46 : Iss. 2 , Article 1.

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