ABSTRACT
Social work texts seem to show clearly the kinds of proposition in social work that call for the reflective activity. Works from other fields could help to sustain and make profitable such an exercise. Works in the second group are not to be seen as a source of ready-made solutions, but as one way of helping to recognise some important problems in social work for what they are. The chapter discusses the preliminary analysis under the headings H. Perlman herself uses of Person, Place, Problem and Process. The concepts of role and status are defined, of course, in sociology, but they may be used in casework for descriptive purposes, a short-hand way of referring to several features of behaviour. The social agency is an organisation fashioned to express the will of a society or some group in that society as to social welfare.
