This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1922 edition. Excerpt: ...sphere of action radiates outward along all the lines of a client's social relations. Where a maladjustment proves to be predominantly individual and mental, one form of skill is needed; where it is predominantly environmental and social the other; while both are probably indispensable where there is a disturbed personality in an unfavorable and complicated social situation. The particular approach by way of man's social relations, though no substitute for that of any of the other professions just named, becomes increasingly indispensable as the character of human evolution changes from the predominantly physical and individual to the social. There is no such thing as a "self-made man," and the phrase, once so popular, has fallen into disuse. It may happen to any one of us at any time and has already happened to every one of us more than once, to fall out of adjustment with our world through some failure to meet our opportunities, some temporary shock from without, or through irreparable loss. The more complicated the mechanism of society and the more highly organized the individual, the more delicate, under any of these circumstances, does the task of readjustment become. A sense of frustration cannot be overcome by cheerful and vague general advice. For this type of social treatment it is necessary for a worker to learn the art of discovering the major interests of the individual, and of utilizing them to reknit a broken connection or to supply a motive lacking before. To illustrate: A former student of mine, working in a part of the country where organized medical-social work was un known, found herself often called upon, as secretary of the family welfare society of the town, to help the local physicians in pellagra cases....