Concerned professionals in various parts of the country have formed crisis-oriented counseling services to meet the needs of women who request abortions. This article presents information obtained from a sample of women seeking abortions and discusses the counselor's role in the decision making process. (Author)

The reactor sees a growing gulf between what social work states its mission is and what it is actually doing. Poor communities need a social worker with the knowledge and skills to do clinical work and who is able as well to intervene via social action on larger community systems. (Author)

Despite their ability to intervene in the areas of society that produce malfunctioning individuals, social workers have retreated into privatism. In the opinion of this author, this constitutes an abandonment of the primary mission of the profession. (Author)

A survey of MSW school social workers finds a shift from the case-work focus found in a similar study done in 1968. However, the author sees today's practice in the schools as inadequate to respond to the problems facing them now. (Author)

The core of social work development lies in the assumption of full responsibility for providing, administering, and planning concrete care services for populations dependent on others. Other therapeutic or curative services would depend on this foundation. Public sanction, demand, and criteria for developing and training personnel are elaborated.…