THE HOME VISIT, REVISITED

Reactive to changes in health care and the economy, the delivery of so cial work services has been expanded to include the home visit as an a lternative to meeting with clients in the agency or hospital. The home visit has been a vital tool in the articulation of social work servic es throughout the history of the profession. This article will briefly trace the history of the beginning of home Visitation and will discus s some of the techniques, difficulties, and benefits of this time-hono red professional task. in short, this article will ''revisit'' the hom e visit.