ABSTRACT

No doubt an appreciative comment could be made on Carole Holder's article on Behaviour Therapy. The article of Carole Holder shows with clarity that it is possible to look at life with extreme naivety. The trouble is that this amazing over-simplification of social work must appeal to those who are needed to give support to social work in terms of money. Social workers need just now to look at the philosophy or their work all the time; they need to know when they must fight to be allowed to do the difficult and not the easy thing. It is sad that there are not enough case-workers, and that there never will be. All that is necessary is for the therapist to exploit the fact that human beings are a kind of animal with a neurophysiology like that of rats and frogs. Human beings have a great deal that animals do not have at all.