"Crafting a usable past": The care-centered practice narrative in social work

Mary Richmond, Mary Jarrett, Jessie Taft, Virginia Robinson, and Bertha Rey nolds were five eminent scholar-practitioners from the pre-World War II era who shaped American social work philosophy and practice. Telling their sto ries illuminates social work's care-centered core, resists pressure to demo te compassion as a guiding value for the profession, and confronts the myth that practitioners have;undermined the profession's "true" mission by aban doning social justice.