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Bertha C. Reynolds
Making a Mark
on Social Work
1885-1978
- Bertha Capen Reynolds Society
(now Social Welfare Action Alliance)
- Honored at Social Work schools around the country and formally recognized by the NASW as a Social Work Pioneer.
A Career in Social Work
Major Publications
"The Role of the Psychiatric Social Worker in Therapy"
Between Client and Community: A Study in Responsibility in
Social Case Work
Learning and Teaching in the Practice of Social Work
Social Work and Social Living
An Uncharted Journey (an autobiography)
1913-1935
- Boston College for Social Workers
(now Simmons College)
- Danvers State Hospital
- Massachusetts Department of
Mental Hygiene Habit Clinic
- Smith College for Social Work
http://asteria.fivecolleges.edu/findaids/sophiasmith/mnsss58_bioghist.html
Born in 1885 on
a farm in
Brockton, Massachusetts
Rank & File
Radical
1935-1948
- A Deprived Childhood
- Early Role Models
- Boarding School
- Religious Struggles
- Marxist Theory
- Unionization
- Social Work Today
Retirement & Reflection
- United Seamen's Service to the
Personal Service Department
of the National Maritime Union
- Studied Marxist Theory
- Private Clinical Practice
- Stayed active in her community
and church in retirement
- Still largely isolated
- Died in 1978 at age 93
References
Coconis, M. (2005, 2013). Our roots. Social Welfare Action Alliance. Retrieved
from http://www.socialwelfareactionalliance.org/roots.html
Freedberg, S. (1984). Bertha Capen Reynolds-a woman struggling in her
times. Columbia University.
Hunter, R. (1999). Voices of Our Past: The Rank and File Movement in Social
Work 1931-1950. Portland State University.
Levine, R. A. (1985). Bertha C. Reynolds Papers, 1907-1994. Biographical
Note, Northampton, MA. Retrieved from http://asteria.
fivecolleges.edu/findaids/sophiasmith/mnsss58_bioghist.html
McQuaide, S. (1987). Beyond the logic of pessimism: a personal portrait of
Bertha Capen Reynolds. Clinical Social Work Journal, 271–280.