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Handbook of Positive Youth Development

coherent research, social work has long been sanctioned by the society to ritualize social values rather than work on issues of social and economic inequality or even the material deprivations of those most in need. It is perhaps paradoxical that social work practice is largely defined by psychotherapeutic practice and its assumptions of individualism and personal responsibility customarily associated with political conservatism when most social workers consider themselves to be liberals if not progressives and radicals. Yet, the field offers up a vague humanism in atonement for ideological irony or perhaps social workers are referring to clothing styles and musical taste when they see themselves as leftists. There is quite a difference between voicing the heroic and doing the deed. In academic social work, the critical analysis of service effectiveness is doing the deed. The compromises of collaborative research committed with the post-modern tools of personal aggrandizement are affronts to science and the advocacy of those in need. The very human fact that social work scholars have families to feed and ambitions for comfortable retirements does not excuse the very human cowardice of retreat into a narcosis of noble purpose. Social work has given up on the Enlightenment and intellectual respectability. YGMAL may not be a sufficient justification for a field without common decency and intellectual rigor even if it walks with a low carbon footprint and sports a charming multicultural inclusiveness.