ABSTRACT
This chapter presents certain basic information which has been collected on all students qualifying as psychiatric social workers up to 1962. This will enable for the first time to discover the number who have trained, their ages, their academic qualifications, and their work experience before training. In the history of the professional Association, the influx of a larger group of men has had some effects in connection with salary questions and also with policies in regard to community care, the development of psychiatric social work in local health departments. Male psychiatric social workers have in fact an influence on the profession out of proportion to their numbers. In analysing the posts held by students on acceptance for the Courses, an attempt was made to distinguish between several kinds of social work and between social work and other kinds of occupation. Non-social work jobs have been classified in the following section as ‘Others’.
