PREFACE

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF SOCIAL ASSISTANCE IN MEDICAL WORK

I

II

III

IV

V

PART I Medical-Social Diagnosis

CHAPTER I THE MEDICAL STANDING, DUTIES, AND EQUIPMENT OF THE SOCIAL ASSISTANT

Light on the severity of illness

Nests of contagious disease

Hotbeds of industrial disease

Medical outfit of the social worker

Technical methods

CHAPTER II HISTORY-TAKING BY THE SOCIAL ASSISTANT

History and catastrophe

The network of events

Listening and questioning

Past history

CHAPTER III ECONOMIC INVESTIGATION BY THE SOCIAL ASSISTANT

Housing

Working conditions

CHAPTER IV MENTAL INVESTIGATION BY THE SOCIAL ASSISTANT

Mental diagnoses in social work

Shiftlessness

Instability

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CHAPTER V MENTAL INVESTIGATION BY THE SOCIAL ASSISTANT (continued)

Fears and forgetfulness

Forgetfulness

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CHAPTER VI THE SOCIAL WORKERS' INVESTIGATION OF FATIGUE, REST, AND INDUSTRIAL DISEASE

Fatigue and rest

Tests of fatigue

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CHAPTER VII THE SOCIAL WORKER'S BEST ALLY—NATURE'S CURE OF DISEASE

Industrial disease

PART II Social Treatment

CHAPTER VIII SAMPLES OF SOCIAL THERAPEUTICS

1. Order in social treatment

2. Presence of mind in social treatment

3. How to give in social treatment

4. Creative listening in social treatment

5. The case-worker's pyramid in social treatment

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CHAPTER IX THE MOTIVE OF SOCIAL WORK