Charlotte Towle

Charlotte Towle (* 1896 in Butte , Montana ; † 1966 ) was an American social worker and university teacher.

Life

Towle grew up in Butte, Montana. In 1919 she graduated from Goucher College with a Bachelor of Arts in education . She then worked for the American Red Cross and became increasingly interested in social work . With the financial support of the Commonwealth - scholarship , she attended the New York School of Social Work (now Columbia University School of Social Work ) and graduated there in 1926 with a degree in Psychiatric Social Work from.

Towle worked for two years (1926–1928) as a director at the Children's Fund in Philadelphia . From 1928 to 1932 she supervised Casework and continued studying Psychiatric Social Work at the Institute for Child Guidance in New York . The institute, founded by the Commonwealth Fund as a model clinic, was a leader in the theory and practice of Psychiatric Social Work. Towle served as a supervisor for the practical phases of the students from New York and the Smith College schools of social work.

In 1932, Towle was appointed to a full faculty position at the University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration .

In 1945 her best-known work, Common Human Needs , was published by the Federal Security Agency . A few years later it became involved in the “Common Human Needs Affair”. In the book, Towle used the word "socialized" to refer to socialization , not socialism . This was misunderstood in the context of the Red Fear of the 1950s. The board of directors of the American Medical Association (AMA) called the book "malicious and malicious un-American". That was published by an agency that is now the Department of Health and Human Services . The AMA was concerned that the agency was on its way to general health care, which the AMA did not want at all. She declared the book to be "socialist propaganda "; this fitted in with a larger campaign in which they denounced as "socialism" all public support to prevent universal health care. The book and its printing plates were destroyed. Social workers, however, saw the great value of the book, so the largest professional association published the book again.

1953–54 she taught, among others, the Dutch UN scholarship holder Cora Baltussen (1912–2005), who later became known in the Netherlands as a social worker, supervisor but also for her work for the Driel Poles .

Works

• Common Human Needs , Washington, DC: National Association of Social Workers, 1952. Revised edition 1987, National Association of Social Workers (NASW), ISBN 978-0871011541
• The emotional element in learning in education for social work: delivered at the twenty-ninth annual meeting, American Association of Schools of Social Work, January 1948 (now the Council on Social Work Education) , New York: Council on Social Work Education, [ 1948?]
• The learner in education for the professions: as seen in education for social work. , University of Chicago Press, 1954
• Some reflections on social work education. London, Family Welfare Association [1957?]
• Helping: Charlotte Towle on social work and social casework. , Ann Arbor, MI: University Microfilms International, 1986.

Her estate, consisting of 26 boxes, is archived in the University of Chicago Library .

Some of her work has been translated and published in German, French, Japanese, Spanish and Dutch:

• Algemeen menselijke noden: gerippen van dynamic psychologie, toegepast op maatschappelijk werk , Roermond [etc.]: Romen & Zonen, 1955.
• The basic emotional needs of children and adults. , 1956
• Comprendre les besoins humains: les grandes tâches de l'attention à autrui. Paris: Éditions du Centurion, 1967.
• El trabajo social y las necesidades humanas básicas , La Prensa Médica Mexicana, 1968
• Theories over social casework , Deventer: Van Loghum Slaterus, 1975

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Guide to the Charlotte Towle Papers 1915-1968 .
2. ↑ Charlotte Towle . Archived from the original on September 10, 2017. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved September 8, 2017. 
3. ^ Charlotte Towle: Common Human Needs . National Association of Social Workers, New York, NY 1965, pp. Viii.
4. ↑ Baltussen, Cora: Eindrapport. Study carried out from 5 januari 1953 to 30 June 1954 in de Verenigde Staten van Amerika in het kader van het “United Nations Social Welfare Scholarships Program” over het onderwerp Social Casework Methods and Methods of Supervision, zp, zj, Ministerie van Maatschappelijk Werk (afdeling Maatschappelijk Opbouwwerk), Series A No 29, p. 5
5. ^ Literary Remains of Charlotte Towle , University of Chicago Library, Special Collections Research Center