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Florence Day, “Problems of Collaboration Between the Clinic Center and the Psychology Department in Providing Clinical Experience,” 1949
In this article, Florence Day considered the different challenges social work departments and psychology departments faced in collaborating with clinics providing real-world services. She suggested ways in which the two departments might learn from each other and also why they were distinct.
Florence Day, “A Study of Casework Practice,” 1935
Florence Day reviewed recent casework studies in order to evaluate current casework practice by starting with social workers’ experiences rather than starting with theory. This, then, might reassure those social workers who questioned the new emphasis on theory in their profession by giving evidence for which ones worked in which settings. Bertha Capen Reynolds’s response is also printed.
Annette Garrett, “Learning through Supervision,” 1954
Using the case study of the Smith College School for Social Work, Associate Director Annette Garrett explained how students learned social work through the Block Plan of two nine months sessions of supervision in a field work internship, sandwiched between three summers of intense coursework.
Annette Garrett, “Worker-Client Relationship,” 1949
In this 1949 article, Associate Director Annette Garrett discusses different types and gradations of relationships between clients and social workers, including, but not limited to, transference.
Bertha Capen Reynolds Oral History, 1976
Bertha Capen Reynolds was a pioneer educator and practitioner in the field of social work and an innovative writer on broader social subjects. An extended oral history interview follows a brief biography of her.
Theses Titles in PDF form, 1920-2017
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Bertha Capen Reynolds Urges Kimball to Admit Black Students, early 1930s
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They Go Wild, Simply Wild, Over Freud, 1918
Bertha Capen Reynolds recorded the songs they sung in 1918 in her diary. Try to imagine the women with serious expressions and lovely modest white dresses singing about sex, libido and repression!
Hymnal of Psychic Snatches, 1923
This delightful “hymnal” from 1923 unfortunately does not contain authorship information. Enjoy, nonetheless!
“Dear Miss Garrett” Skit, 1953
Here is a skit from 1953 tracing students’ complicated relationship to Associate Director Annette Garrett, who was also in charge of field placements for most of her term, which often earned her student frustration when she sent them somewhere they hadn’t expected to go.
“Do you Remember?” Songs, 1953
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“A Musical Revue of 65 Years at Smith,” 1983
A collection of songs lyrics they from the early days of the school to celebrate its 65th Anniversary in 1983.
“I am the Dean” Katherine Gabel skit, 1985
‘I am the Dean’ starts out with a tribute to Dean Katherine Gabel in her final year as dean. Dean Gable comes into the skit part way through. She looks back and captures a lot of the spirit of student life in the 1980s through humorous (and fictional) statistics.
Therapy Hotline Skit, 1987
In this 1987 skit, a student parodies therapeutic language with skillful wit.
Day in the Life of a Plan B Student, 1989
The 1989 B program skit gives a sense of a day in the life of a student. The B program was a one year MSW for people who had had at least three years of supervised clinical experience prior to coming to Smith. The days at Smith for A and B students were very busy, but the B programs surely packed a lot in 15 months of study.
AIDS Quilt, 1989
This 1989 Smith College School for Social Work skit was a tribute to the national AIDS Quilt effort to remember and show love for those who died of AIDS and to raise awareness of the need for services for persons with HIV+ and AIDs.
“Human Sexuality Course” skit, 1992
This 1992 skit shared an arc of students’ interest and comfort in their “human sexuality” course. Sexuality in all its forms can still be a difficult conversation for beginning social workers.
Photographing and Celebrating Diverse Families, 2000
By showing how different families can be, Peggy Elman Gillespie, M.S.W. 1969, and her Family Diversity Projects hope to convince us all that diversity is something to be celebrated.
HIV and AIDS in Provincetown, 1998
Provincetown (or P-town) residents responded quickly and thoroughly to the devastation that HIV and AIDS brought to their community in the early 1980s. In 1996 Pamela Peterson AC 1984, M.S.W. 1994 and her coauthor Jeanne Braham recognized P-town’s uniqueness and came to the Cape Cod community to interview those infected by HIV and AIDS as well as their families, friends, and caretakers.
Katherine Brownell Oettinger, Children’s Bureau Chief 1967
Katherine Brownell Oetinger, M.S.S. 1925, became chief of the Children’s Bureau, an undersecretary in the federal Department of Health, Education, and Welfare in 1957 during the Dwight D. Eisenhower administration.
Graduate Students Experience of Stress, Burnout, and Coping, 1989
Stress and burnout is not a new concern for SSW students. From the very first days, SSW professors who were also psychiatrists and psychologists sometimes served as therapists for students. By the 1980s, though, faculty and therapists had been separated into two different offices.
Smith Women on WWII Fronts, 1944
A 1944 article in the Smith Alumnae Quarterly in which a New York Smith Club panel meeting points up important wartime social work being done by alumnae and by graduates of the Smith School for Social Work.
Blue Slip and the Joy of Finishing a Thesis, 1992
The 1992 Blue Slip skit marks a tradition at Smith College School for Social Work. Students who turned in a completed thesis were give a ‘blue slip’ as a receipt for turning in their work. The blue slip was the invention of Joyce Leamy – who was the person to whom slips were turned in for many years. (Joyce Leamy writes her signature on the big blue slip at the start of the skit.) The enthusiasm of finishing the thesis was evident annually at Smith!
Fred and Jerry Sing to Bridge the Divide between Policy and Practice, 1999
Dr. Jerry Sachs, a member of the resident faculty, and Fred Newdom published a book in 1999 on Activism and Clinical Work. This Smith College School for Social Work 1999 skit addresses the false dichotomy between practice and policy in a humorous way.
Preparing to Care for Shell-Shocked Men, 1918
The 1918 New York Times announcement about the Smith College Training School for Psychiatric Social Work.
“Give My Best to Miss Collins” Mary Jarrett’s partner of 40+ years
Long before the modern gay rights movement, in letters to Mary Jarrett, her colleagues and friends acknowledged Katrine Collins, her partner of 40+ years,
The Social Work Archive
In this 1983 essay, delivered as a speech at the 65th SSW Anniversary, Dean Ann Hartman, M.S.S. 1954, examined assumptions and implications with regard to world view and epistemologies. She offered the claim by Carol Gilligan in her book, In A Different Voice that women have a different way of thinking than men and asked what the implications are of that insight.
Ann Hartman, “Epistemologies and Paradigms,” 1983
In this 1983 essay, delivered as a speech at the 65th SSW Anniversary, Dean Ann Hartman, M.S.S. 1954, examined assumptions and implications with regard to world view and epistemologies. She offered the claim by Carol Gilligan in her book, In A Different Voice that women have a different way of thinking than men and asked what the implications are of that insight.
Janna Malamud Smith, “A Place of Her Own,” 1998
Throughout history, women have been denied the benefits of privacy. All that changed with Roe V. Wade. Here, the author of Private Matters: In Defense of the Personal Life examines the important role privacy plays in women’s lives.