ABSTRACT
Training for social work, after a period of relative neglect from 1910 until towards the end of the Second World War, has become a topic of general importance to social workers and some interest for those outside the profession. It has been a continuing and critical concern of the Association of Psychiatric Social Workers since its foundation. The training activities of the Association can be divided into four main groups, the protection of training for, the improvement and extension of such training, and measures to establish and maintain standards. The psychiatric social worker visited the home. The Association never seems to have taken any initiative in the establishment of new courses of training for psychiatric social work, and its policy has been extremely cautious. Indeed, training is envisaged as the commencement of a period of learning that will extend over most of a professional life.
