Human Services Dictionary

What goes around, comes around. When I first started running a polytechnic library, way back when in 1971, it had just been decided that providing separate training courses for different forms of social worker – hospital almoners, psychiatric social workers, probation officers, etc. was wasteful. As a result the Central Council for Education and Training in Social Work was busy setting up a single two‐year diploma course to train all of them to deal with the mad, the sad and the bad in any situation. Similarly the psychiatric nurses, who used to be a very odd bunch indeed training in...