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This 8 page paper emphasizes the importance of cultural and linguistic competence in a world that has changed radically in terms of cultural interaction. Bibliography lists 12 sources.
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listed below. Citation styles constantly change, and these examples may not contain the most recent updates. Social Work in a Rapidly Evolving
World Research Compiled by 4/2011 Please
Part I. Multicultural Social Work History
and Conceptual Dimensions According to the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) (2010), the first social work class was offered at Columbia University
in 1898. Indeed, Mary Richmond had started classes of her own through the Baltimore Charity Organization even earlier than that (NASW, 2010). Women like Jane Addams were considered
social worker pioneers. In 1931 Addams won the Noble Prize (one of the first women to have ever done so) for establishing settlement houses in Chicago (NASW, 2010).
Social work as a theory, of course, existed long before that first formal class. Priests and ministers, in fact, were among the first
social workers. In early Christian tradition these professionals tended to the needs of the disadvantaged just as social workers are charged with tending to those needs today. The
Elizabethan poor laws, first established in the 1601, delineated the way the poor were dealt with for centuries.
Today social work has both changed from what it was in the earlier years of its history and stayed dramatically the same. Whether social workers were working with the
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