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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.
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.
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.
Dorothy Atwill on Achieving Work-Life Balance in 1928
In this article, a psychiatric social worker contends with challenges of work-life balance that will seem familiar to many working women ninety years later.
Mary Jarrett, “Careers for Women by the Ablest Women,” 1921
SSW Founder Mary Jarrett on why psychiatric social work made a good career for women. Part of “a series of 75 articles describing occupations open to women. Each article is written by an expert in that particular field and presents frankly and concisely the advantages, the disadvantages, the salary, the opportunities, the qualifications, and the best preparation for each vocation.”
90th Anniversary InDepth, 2008
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Marian Schneider, “Nourish Your Magnolia,” 1979
In this 1979 essay, Marian Schneider, M.S.S. 1960, reflects on divorce from the perspective of a marriage and family therapist and someone who has been divorced for a long time.
Dorcas Davis Bowles Oral History, 2007
Dr. Dorcas Davis Bowles, SSW ’60, has had a distinguished career as an educational administrator, clinical teacher and author on ethnic identity. In this excerpt from her complete oral history, she remembers how she became interested in social work and her experiences as a student in the Smith College School for Social Work in the 1960s.
Angelika Robertson, “Focus on Women,” 1979
In this 1979 essay, Angelika Robertson describes the projects she and other fellows pursued while at the SSW New Research Center. She frames the value of the center to her professional life through the lens of coming back to academia after having her second child.
Informational Brochure about the First Year, 1918
An early group of alumnae out of Boston attempted to keep everyone connected through a newsletter they called “The Social Syndrome.” Unfortunately, they only put out two issues. But they are enlightening ones.
Katherine Gabel on Encouraging Excellence in a Beleagured Profession, 1982
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The Social Syndrome Alumnae Newsletter, 1920-27
One of the first groups of alumnae out of Boston attempted to keep everyone connected in the 1920s through a newsletter they called “The Social Syndrome.” Though they only put out two issues, they are enlightening ones.
30th Anniversary, New York Times, 1948
With the SSW coming up on its 30th Anniversary, Florence Day and Annette Garrett decided to launch the Program for Advanced Study. The New York Times covered the new direction they planned.
Florence Day and the Alumnae Association, 1956
One of the goals Florence Day set for her administration was to establish a strong and lasting Alumnae Association. Listen to alumni and read Day’s own words on how she approached this goal.
Florence Day, An Experiment in Social Work Education
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A Gentle, Over-modest, Gracious Lady: Tribute to Florence Day by Annette Garrett, 1957
The first Alumnae Association Newsletter after Florence Day’s death. The whole issue is devoted to a tribute to the former dean by Associate Dean Annette Garrett.
Howard Parad, Smith School in Perspective, 1959
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Personification of the School: Tributes to Florence Day and Annette Garrett, 1958
Soon after the more expected death of Director Florence Day from cancer, Associate Director Annette Garrett died unexpectedly. In this issue of the Alumnae Association Newsletter, SSW faculty member and alumna Nancy Staver gives a “biographical tribute” to the controversial and devoted Garrett.
The Special Undergraduate Program, 1972
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Doctoral Program Launched, 1964
In 1964, Dean Howard Parad sheperded the Program for Advanced Study (PAS) into a Doctoral Program.
Golden Jubilee Edition, 1968
This Golden Jubilee issue contains a history of the Alumni Association, a letter from Dean Howard Parad on the cusp of curriculum changes, and reminiscences about the very first years of the SSW from Mary Cynthia Smith, M.S.S. 1920.
Students, Alumni and Faculty Evaluate Significant Changes in the Late 1980s
Significant changes instituted by Ann Hartman soon after she became dean in 1986 brought the attention of students on campus, of the Northampton Community and of alumni spread around the world.