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This 15 page paper discusses the influence of Mary Richmond on the world of sociology and the social worker, but also in other historical events such as women's suffrage and child welfare. Bibliography lists 17 sources.
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in this field, Mary Ellen Richmond, influenced the direction of the profession from its very inception. Her theoretical ideas on marriage and child welfare laid the foundation for many
gains for womens suffrage and for implementing programs for children. Her ideas, including the mind upon mind and the wider self, played a great deal into the relief of those
for whom she worked. At its very root, social work is supposed to help those families and individuals understand and cope with their personal and social problems. In the
very beginning, when Mary Richmond began, social work was associated normally with the church or some charity organization. With the advent of industrialization and reason, it was thought plausible that
rational solutions did exist for dealing with social problems. Social work gained prominence by its recognition, nationally, as a profession. But, even at that, there were very
few handbooks or textbooks with which to train new workers. Mary Richmonds What is Social Work and Social Diagnosis were two books that resulted. In these books she advocated a
mind to mind approach which was a systematic approach to dealing with the problems an individual might be having. In particular, Mary had a heart for women and children, which
was primarily what she was seeing come into the charities for help. She was part of the leading association for The American Association for Organizing Charities which dealt with
dysfunctional families. What can be said was that the world was changing and womens lives were getting worse in some respects and were getting better in others. Victorian Era women
were sick and tired of being sick and tired. Mary Richmond must have noted how the women felt displaced in their own homes and communities, viewed as so much baggage
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