The need for school social work in elementary schools.

The role of the social worker in the school system has been receiving considerable attention in professional circles in recent years. Basic to this is the realisation that family life is suffering because of the increasing complexities and insecurities of modern living, and that the strains and maladjustments in the home are being reflected in the children. As these children with their problems are concentrated in the school for at least five hours each day, and as the principal and the teacher, who are also subject to the pressures of modern society, are, for the most part, having to carry the burden of these alone, it has been felt that they ought to be receiving assistance from one of the helping professions. [...