The Importance of Patients

“The social work profession is more than 120 years old. It has been and continues to be molded by two major streams of influence: the mind-body integrity of the individual (mental health) on the one hand and the influence of the environment in which the person functions (social and economic) on the other. The tension between these two influences remains today, often guiding very different legislative goals for social work organizations. For general social work: social injustice; for clinical social work: mental stress and illness understood in terms of the ‘person-in-situation’.”

—Marsha Wineburgh, DSW, LCSW-R, Legislative Chair of NYSSCSW (bold text added)

The NYSSCSW have always sought to be on the cutting edge of psychological care. From analyses to conferences, they understand professional knowledge doesn't end in the classroom, but is ongoing inside and outside the office. Read their explorations through the years: