Integrating Child Care Services: Overcoming Structural Obstacles to Collaboration of Institutional and Community Agency Staffs

Authors

Arthur K. Berliner, Texas Christian University

Abstract

Social Work practice settings are so diversified that different perspectives inevitably develop among practitioners. These may undermine collaborative efforts between agencies. Child care services afford an example of a field requiring diversified agency settings and therefore vulnerable to development of contrasting perspectives. Some of the sources of an "institutional perspective" and of a "community perspective" are identified, as well as problems originating in lack of a shared perspective. Proposals for overcoming these problems and promoting integration of services comprises the final section of the paper.

Recommended Citation

Berliner, Arthur K. (1979) "Integrating Child Care Services: Overcoming Structural Obstacles to Collaboration of Institutional and Community Agency Staffs," The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare: Vol. 6: Iss. 3, Article 10.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15453/0191-5096.1358
Available at: https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/jssw/vol6/iss3/10