e: a strong knowledge of and confidence in professional identity; the cognitive ability to deal with complexities; and a strong awareness of both constraints and resources applicable to given social problems at the individual, group, and community level. They also noted that very good social workers were not especially theory oriented but rather more practically oriented, focusing on what the objectives of a given task were and the best ways to accomplish these objectives.
Paul Light (2003), in a study conducted for the Brookings Institute, surveyed 1, 213 social workers in a large, national random sample. Part of this exploration consisted o
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