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Book Review: A Design for Social Work Practice

A Design for Social Work Practice presents a comprehensive theoretical framework for social work practice as it is evolving today. In the opening chapter, written by Felice D. Perlmutter, the philosophical formulation for the book is stated. Social work practice is seen as an integrated totality conceptualizing a continuity of service delivery and social action to effect a depolarization of these two aspects of practice. Second, social work is espoused in an institutional framework, instead of the more traditional methodological one. Succeeding chapters elaborate various roles from planning and administration through direct service for social workers and provide organizational structures for the delivery of services by such institutional fields of service as child welfare, health care, mental health, and public housing. Highlighted in Part One of the book, "Functional Fields for Social Work Practice," is the deployment of social workers in all organizational levels of public social welfare and the flow of social action from practice. Because social workers currently provide direct services to clients, stress is placed on the positions in social welfare bureaucracies that social workers need to occupy. Thus, social work is seen as practiced throughout various human service programs. Impetus for social action springs from the knowledge of how the delivery of services affects clients and the concern social workers carry for the dignity of each individual. Throughout the book, a number of concepts are elaborated upon. One is that the public sector is rightfully assuming basic responsibility for the provision of essential social welfare services. A number of chapters discuss the organizational structures for public services by functional fields. Although agreeing that the public sector must assume major responsibility for social welfare, this reviewer thinks the book should have related the voluntary social wel-