Social-Work Schools Increasingly Promote Financial-Counseling Courses

The economic crisis is prompting schools of social work to train students to provide financial counseling to poor people, reports the Los Angeles Times.

Some say that the standard social-work curriculum is not adequately preparing students to help with the needs of struggling families and that change is critical.

Margaret Sherraden, a social-work professor at the University of Missouri at St. Louis, told the newspaper, “The growing field of economic empowerment represents an exceptional opportunity for the social-work profession. Arguably, no other profession is as well positioned as social work to assume leadership.”

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