Specialization— a Professional Necessity?

Abstract

AT TH1; present time when increasing demands arc being made on the probation and after-care service, consideration must be given to the need to introduce specialization into our work. There are obviously varying views but specialization has been with us for some time in the form of the Quarter Sessions liaison officer, Divorce Court and prison welfare officers, and the social workers at Dentention Centres.The main reason for bringing about a change is that the job in hand may be done better and client or soci…