Unfaithful Angels/From Cradle to Grave
O'Connell, Patricia A.
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...Perhaps most disquietHarry Specht and Mark E. Courtney est in family and children's services led ing is the fundamental issue of the social The Free Press, $24.95, 300 pp...
...FRANK MCCONNELL 1994 (negotiable...
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...You watch a show and trying to persuade oth- of cops in general and a former "Hill compared this economic movement to ers to join in his refusal...
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...Freedman states that his goal was to ments for this plan seem quite hazy (alwith the greatest need for social services learn "how people cope with the most de- though Freedman might have more to say but the least degree of mobility for ob- structive deprivations, and see how some on the issue after the fate of President Bill taining them at faraway sites, would ben- manage to survive, grow, and thrive...
...the Correspondence pages...
...cites depressing figures: Social workers end of the ideological spectrum-New Many of the people, both clients and in Los Angeles County's Department of Age members of the human potential caregivers, whose lives are discussed in Children's Services often have caseloads movement...
...WILLIAM A. DONOHUE and letter-writing campaigns, and that his dity...
...In fact, none of your letters in- president of the Catholic League for • the Editors: Even though my gut tells dicates that you have watched it...
...They disgrace to the whole human between survival and termination for should not ask, `Does it feel good to potential movement...
...Stephen Bochco is peddling uging is "unrelenting and irreversible...
...taken an interesting approach in struc- and health care, to provide a railing for In fact, the Berkeley schools of social turing his book, which is much more Americans to grasp as they climb from work and public health have already es- personal than Unfaithful Angels: he chron- birth through maturity so that they won't tablished a Center for Integrated Services icles the life span from prenatal care for have to "fall all the way down the stairs for Families and Neighborhoods to help babies to old age as experienced by var- before they get help...
...McConnell the hysteric One wonders just how depraved TV Furthermore, the editors think that the Chicago, Ill...
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...These may be unrelenting but they are not irre- Imagine New Beginnings versible...
...Ph.D...
...instincts that bring us all together here on McConnell who draws the line...
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...I think Robert lmbelli Foundation in Theology IREPIM the tax should be so massive that firms will Luke Johnson Lukellcts Department R think several times before moving and, fur- Chestnut Hill, MA Catherine LaCugna Mystery of the Triune God ther, that some relocation penalties should 02167-3931 Session Two: July 11 - July 22 go directly into the pockets of displaced Walter Brueggemann The Prophets: workers...
...As with Specht and local communities contemplating such an ious Americans in need across the coun- Courtney, proposed financial arrangeapproach...
...July 11-15) To the Editors: I wish that Commonweal Week 2 Partnership in Ministry (July 18-22) did not see fit to provide a forum for the Session Three...
...firms be taxed on relocating pro- Mary Boys Educating in Faith duction to places like Mexico, and that the Bernard Cooke Eucharist and Social Justice Boston College David Hollenhach Social Ethics money be used for job re-training...
...Courtney trained dle class to be counseled for relatively Mission as a clinical psychologist, but his inter- minor problems...
...Clinton's health-care reform bill is deefit most from neighborhood centers, Programs that he describes include the cided...
...How would a cen- are also featured...
...McConnell, Kathleen Ilughes Dynamics of Catholic Worship in his efforts to prove to the world that a Joseph Konionchak Theology of Church serious Catholic can be just as hip as any- Claire Lower- Theology and Pastoral Practice: one else, is spreading the gospel of nihilism Integrative Colloquium Barbara Reid Introduction to the New Testament very effectively in his rave defense of Jon Sohrino Spirituality & Discipleship "NYPD Blue" ["Smart, Hip, and Real," October 8...
...the Council on Social Specht and Courtney do mention an aline social service programs Work Education has developed standards liance of strange bedfellows who believe in the United States and sug- for accrediting schools in the field with psychotherapy may remedy all of our ills gest means to improve de- no requirements for course content on such (personal and collective): neoconservalivery of such services to seemingly vital subjects as the poor, the tives, who hold the individual to blame those who need them most...
...Financing is a partic- and/or money to Families First, LIFE, ularly murky issue here...
...Runyon, many of us feel you're a public official may spell the difference the conscience of the community...
...As the authors point out, our tax dollars support social work education, which seems increasingly oriented to training students for private-practice psychotherapy, UNFAITHFUL ANGELS of Social Welfare at the University of and our insurance plans pay for the midHow Social Work Abandoned Its California at Berkeley...
...Just $26, published quar609 Crawford Street terly...
...Jonathan Freedman's From Cradle to of seventy-five or more (an appalling conIn their sometimes heavyhanded man- Grave are participants in community- dition that may drive some into private ner, the Unfaithful Angels authors advo- oriented programs that Specht and practice, which is exactly where the cate that social workers should beat a Courtney would applaud...
...Were I not a thir- it and won't: odd qualifications, you must you've got to defend all of us...
...Who ul- book, or they might know someone who timately determines service priorities and could use the services of these very profunding allocations, the neighborhoods grams...
...The next time they make this lame argu- is spiritually east of the Hudson...
...BOB ENNIS read, is yours...
...workers over Summer 1994 the past fifteen years by shifting operations Institute of Religious Education and Pastoral Ministry to exploit cheaper labor, I'd say the work- Ministry in Transition: Keeping Pace `%ith a Changing World...
...But Freedman also offers a thepoor), based in an easy-to-reach center, Pulitzer prize-winning journalist, has oretical plan for overhauling social services and accountable to the residents of an area...
...Ennis: As every- to the poor, skilled administrator, fundraissolutely inaccurate to say that liberal one knows, Santa Barbara, California- er...
...pay him the ultimate compliment of beter in Peoria, Illinois, compare with one ginning their own social service proin the South Bronx...
...an estimated 60 percent of munity-oriented approach to social work were unaware of or unresponsive to lo- children born in 1987 will grow up in browith services available to all (not just the cal needs...
...LINDA A. MORROW thing about "NYPD Blue" is not the rank watched "NYPD Blue," one of us liked it, sexuality, profanity, and violence, it's the the other didn't...
...I have not seen the show because I stopped watching TV completely Commonweal 5 November 1993: 37 buy it, or at least not to knock it till we'veMcConnell...
...Children and the elderly, those try...
...Avery frusServices administer such centers, with munity...
...In any right of free speech, much loved by lib• the Editors: Re: Frank McConnell's event, he did a public service by showing erals, applies with full force to Donald near-hysterical admiration for "NYPD what passes muster with liberal Catholics Wildmon's efforts at advertising boycotts Blue," with its violence, profanity, and nu- in the 1990s...
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...Is a neighborhood grams after seeking advice on how to go measured in terms of population, politi- about it from the folks mentioned in his cal division, or geographic size...
...Great Depression, the civil rights move- STUDS TERKEL ment-influenced the practice of social work and its image in the eyes of the gen- Compiled and edited by Rosalie Riegle eral public...
...this tapestry of memoirs, interThe historical foundation rendered here views, descriptions, and narratives are points up a disturbing trend in social work woven into an oral history beginning at this end of the twentieth century-the in 1933 with Dorothy Day and Peter exodus of its practitioners from work Maurin and continuing into the 1990s...
...McConnell the Easterner Guys: It's a show...
...which would also function as volunteer Center for Family Life, which started six- From Cradle to Grave offers phobureaus, citizens' advice and education teen years ago in the Sunset Park section tographs of some of the people the author nuclei, and self-help group meeting of Brooklyn as a modest attempt by Sisters discusses, as well as follow-up synopses places...
...him to look to social work as a better so- good vis-a-vis the middle-class infatualution to some problems...
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...0 36: 5 November 1993 Commonweal five years ago, nor do I consider myself ing mainstream publications in order to a supporter of Rev...
...two- The truly needy often have little or no acPatricia A. O'Connell thirds of the legislative priorities of NASW cess to psychotherapy, nor is there any instate chapters documented in a relative- dication that psychotherapy would solve ly recent study involved licensure or third- their most pressing problems...
...And it is wrong to deny others that same moral choice, whether Position Opening by burning books or terrorizing advertisMcConnell the liberal The Jesuit Volunteer Corps: Midwest seeks ers before the show can even be seen and an executive director to begin in February, New York, N.Y...
...He is exercising his right not to iliary police officer for five, an admirer nomic shakedown is well underway...
...Both are ap- tion with buzzwords like co-dependence, FROM CRADLE TO GRAVE palled, and justifiably so, at statistics and inner child, and addictive personality, The Human Face of Poverty in facts such as these: Approximately 40 per- which may ultimately manifest not a quest America cent of the 140,000 members of the for even self-improvement (never mind Jonathan Freedman National Association of Social Workers community improvement) but rather selfAtheneum, $20, 245 pp...
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...seling, food, health and foster care, and tered throughout the text) and lack of reWhile it is enticing to believe that such employment services free of charge to any- source information about the particular centers would deliver assistance in the one in the neighborhood with teen-agers programs mentioned here...
...Some of the Unfaithful Angels authors claim they quick retreat from the private practice of most effective programs, in fact, began don't belong...
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...Unfaithful Angels chronicles the history of social work, highlighting turn-of-thecentury pioneers Jane Addams, founder of Chicago's Hull House, and Mary Honoring 60 years of profound commitmentRichmond, a Charity Organization Society activist who wrote Social Diagnosis, a sem- "This book is even more inal study in social systems theory, be- essential now than when havioral analysis, and casework...
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...with the poor, the homeless, and other dis- 512 pages $22.95 advantaged populations, into privatepractice psychotherapy with a basically at bookstores or to charge, call middle-class clientele, "the worried well...
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...same sentimental glorification of big-city liness for fame and money and calling it This kind of analogy tends to hinder re- misery and alienation that I stopped read- truth, and McConnell is urging us all to flection and action...
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...As long as putative critics-and edCORRESPONDENCE though I was ashamed of McConnell's ucated Catholic ones at that!-fall for the (Continued from page 2) snide rib-nudging about the American old line that only the ugliest things are true, Family Association-this is political cor- we will have no defense against the sesumption in your thinking is found in the rectness at its worst, and cowardly...
...If one is to However, the general point advanced judge from the straitened circumstances by Specht and Courtney is quite well of the programs Freedman has docutaken: "Social workers should not be mented in From Cradle to Grave, a sinsecular priests in the church of individ- gle volunteer, contribution, or concerned ual repair, they should be caretakers of "Dr...
...Qualifications: Desire • the Editors: For years my liberal to integrate faith and justice, commitment Catholic friends have told me that it is ab- From the editors: Mr...
...July 25 - August 5 ego of Frank McConnell...
...Send resume by Novemuality, profanity, and violence that mark Blue" on Tuesday nights at 10 P.M.-is a ber 15th: Search Committee P.O...
...Instead, Religious and Civil Rights, which styles me that the plethora of violence on TV is you repeat the tired litany of "rank sexu- itself an anti-defamation effort on behalf an influence for evil in some people, I agree ality, profanity, and violence" which of Catholics, might want to rethink his with much of Frank McConnell's review Donald Wildmon's people have promul- stereotypical and just-at-the-edge-of defamof "NYPD Blue...
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...PA 19122 Specht is dean and professor of the School Commonweal 5 November 1993: 35 for lack of financial, educational, and so- you?' They should help communities As did Specht and Courtney, Freedman cial success...
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...the center now provides full-time trating aspect of this book is the absence state and county equivalents to the fed- child care, after-school programs, coun- of notes (except for a few footnotes scateral overseers...
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