New Careers For The Poor: The Nonprofessional in Human Service

By Arthur Pearl And Frank Riessman

From the Preface: “The current trend in most of the human service areas, such as social work and psychiatry, is for an increasingratio of time to be spent on consultation, supervision, teaching, and a decreasing proportion of time in direct service. Thus, there is considerable need for service-orientated people and we believe that the indigenous low-income nonprofessional can fill this important vacuum. In this sense, the term "non- professional" is limited because it does not specify the nature of the tasks to be performed; the usefulness of the term, however, lies in calling attention to certain distinctions between a professional orientation and the performance of various tasks by people whosetraining si less inclusive than that of professionals, but who may have specific contribu- tions to make in the performance of tasks related to the helping professions. This book is principally concerned with one type of nonprofessional, namely the indigenous nonprofes- sional working in economically disadvantaged communities.”

NY. The Free Press. 1965. 275p. CONTAINS MARK-UP