ABSTRACT
The task-centred method became known in the UK after the publication of Task-Centred Casework (Reid and Epstein 1972) in the United States, and was soon incorporated into social work qualifying programmes. However, it was the National Institute of Social Work (NISW) which developed a specific training model in task-centred practice to take to social work agencies and probation services across the UK in the late 1970s and early 1980s (Atherton 1982; McCaughan and Vickery 1982). At the same time, Jane Gibbons, Matilda Goldberg and their colleagues were conducting action research projects in which participants were taught the task-centred method, with evaluation of their subsequent practice (Gibbons et al. 1979; Goldberg et al. 1984a).
