Carrying A Banner For Psychiatric Social Work: Essays, Perspectives, and Maida Herman Solomon's Oral Memoir

The memoir of her career by a Boston woman, Maida Herman Solomon (1891-1988), who worked to build a profession of psychiatric social work (later also clinical social work), in a unique collaboration with her prominent psychiatrist husband. Coming of age in the Progressive era, Maida Solomon was a rebel who fused her interests both imaginatively and constructively throughout her life. She was founding President of the American Association of Psychiatric Social Workers in 1926; and she helped found the Massachusetts Academy of Psychiatric Social Work in the 1970's. The Solomons' book, Syphilis of the Innocent, from 1922 is a classic of the field; and Maida Solomon's study of the field from the 1940's was used as a text in schools of social work throughout the country. Her research group in the 1960's and '70's published many seminal books and articles. During a long career as a social worker and professor of social work, she blended mentoring, program development, research, and work on the institutional development of her profession, while supporting the training of social workers in a human service philosophy and methods that enabled the emergence of a fully modern professional social work.In addition to the memoir, the volume includes historical andother background material and interpretive essays.Maida H. Solomon is the author of 'Carrying A Banner For Psychiatric Social Work: Essays, Perspectives, and Maida Herman Solomon's Oral Memoir' with ISBN 9781587900655 and ISBN 1587900653.