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Mahatma Gandhi, among others like Aristotle, is often credited with the famous quote: “a society’s greatness is measured by how it treats its weakest members.” More recently, Hurbert H. Humphrey’s last speech in his office (December 30, 1964) echoed this sentiment … “the moral test of a government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in shadows of life; the sick, the needy, and the handicapped.” These vulnerable and in turn, more dependent populations in our society have been the lifeblood of North American social work practice since its inception. Going back further, they were also mentioned in the social policies of the Elizabethan Poor Laws of 1601 in the UK.
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Holosko, M. (2015). Summary: Field-Tested Evidence-Informed Assessment and Treatment for Practice in Child Welfare. In: Wodarski, J., Holosko, M., Feit, M. (eds) Evidence-Informed Assessment and Practice in Child Welfare. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-12045-4_16
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