Fordham GSS Professor Mary Ann Forgey, Ph.D., recently published research that discusses the contributing factors to occupational social work’s decline since the 1990s and actions the profession can take to revive the field of practice.
The article “Occupational Social Work: A Field of Practice in Need of Revival” appears in Families in Society: The Journal of Contemporary Research. Co-authors are Kundong He and Yafei Cai.
“Occupational social work is the specialized field most suited to address the needs of workers under stress, yet it has been in decline in the United States since the 1990s,” the article’s abstract reads.
The article cites managed care, the dominance of the advanced clinical social work license, and the lack of a social work presence in occupational stress effectiveness research as factors for occupational social work’s decline in recent decades.
