...to form a basis for work, or, as Miss Richmond terms it, "a social diagnosis," which she describes as "the attempt to make as exact a definition as possible...also to the social institutions of his community." So social 'workers have developed through training and experience until now we find them a part of...

...Mary Van Kleeck. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1917,— x, 276 pp. $1.50 net. Social diagnosis is "the attempt to make as exact a definition as possible...also to the social institutions of his community." The author is qualified to deal with the subject by long and successful experience as a social worker....

...social environment. The first two she has elsewhere described as social diagnosis which she defines as "the attempt to make as exact a definition as possible...situation and personality, that is, in relation to other human beings upon whom he in any way depends or who depend upon him, and in relation also to...

...sequences of situations were not seen as linked into structures: Social diagnosis . . . may be described as the attempt to make as exact a definition as possible...also to the social institutions of his community. This kind of formulation has been widely applied to isolated 'problems' addressed by sociologists....

...Richmond's 1917 text, addressed mainly to social workers, indicated a need for "social diagnosis," defined as "the attempt to make as exact a definition as possible...also to the social institutions of his community." The text cautioned the "worker to distinguish in the evidence collected what is relatively important...

...worker makes as exact a definition as possible of the person and the situation, "that is, in relation to other human beings upon whom he in any way depends or who depend upon him, and in relation to the social institutions of the community."2 That theme of person-situation has persisted over time....

...should "consider the whole man." Richmond explains her project: "Social diagnosis . . . may be described as the attempt to make as exact a definition as possible of the situation and personality of the human being in some social need — of his situation and personality, that is, in relation to the...

...worker as an expert collector and interpreter of social evidence (Richmond 1917). Social diagnosis was "the attempt to make as exact a definition as possible...way depends or who depend upon him, and in relation to social institutions of his community" (Richmond 1917:357). According to Richmond, casework consisted...

...sequences of situations were not seen as linked into structures: Social diagnosis . . . may be described as the attempt to make as exact a definition as possible...also to the social institutions of his community."' This kind of formulation has been widely applied to isolated "problems" addressed by sociologists."*...

...the means to their solution." Social diagnosis entailed making "as exact a definition as possible ot the situation and personality of a human being in some social need ... in relation to the other human beings upon whom he in any way depends or who depend upon him, and...