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Florence Day, An Experiment in Social Work Education

Posted byLauren Anderson May 30, 2018July 20, 2018

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How the Smith School for Social Work Came into Being

After her predecessor, Everett Kimball, erased Mary Jarrett from the narrative of the founding of SSW, Florence Day wrote the history of the school as she understood it to be accurate, including Jarrett’s founding role.

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The history of the Smith School for Social Work is the account of the beginning of psychiatric social work and the foundation and development of formal education in this field.

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Florence Day, 1950s, Photographer: Unrecorded, Florence Hollis and Rosemary Reynolds Collection #203, Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College, Northampton, MA.

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Faculty, 1952, Photographer: Unrecorded, School for Social Work, RG 60 Box 1315, College Archives, Smith College, Northampton, MA.

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Florence Day, “An Experiment in Social Work Education,” School for Social Work Records, RG 60, College Archives, Smith College, Northampton, MA.

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Posted byLauren AndersonMay 30, 2018July 20, 2018Posted inSSW HistoriesTags: 1940s, 1950s, clinical social work, Florence Day, SSW historiography

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