ABSTRACT
Social work practice cuts across programs in mental health, public health and medical services, education, public welfare, foster and protective care, counseling, day care, recreation and community centers, corrections, drug and alcohol rehabilitation, residential care, mental retardation and others. Social work's intellectual efforts, especially those of its university-based faculties, have concentrated on this core of social services. Fischer discovered a new "scientific revolution" in social work research. Feldman et al. has been frequently cited as an example both of high-quality research in social work and of the field's more recent positive effects. Reid and Hanrahan reviewed the next generation of social work's studies after Wood. The scientific eccentricities of social work are indulged by a society that takes comfort in the lap of its fables. Although the cadence of critical thought in social work may be slower than in many areas of the social sciences, the results are about the same throughout.
