Conclusion

Abstract

It is relevant to describe some research which was carried out in the United States in 1967 (McLean, 1980). Social workers and lawyers working together in the Chicago Legal Aid Bureau were asked to rate themselves and each other on a range of indices which were designed to reflect their professional image. On a number of factors such as assertiveness, intelligence, professionalism, responsibility, sensitivity, sympathy, and so on, ‘social workers rated lawyers almost as highly as themselves, but lawyers proved sadly ungenerous in their overall rating of social workers’.