Mary Richmond the great reformer

In the world of the social work, we can found a distinguished woman, Mary Richmond. Mary born in Illinois, EE.UU in 1861. She was an outstanding, practioner, teacher and theorician who formulated the first principles of social work. She founded the Social Work School in New York. In 1917, she published her most important book, “Social Diagnosis” and then in 1922, she wrote “What is the Social Work with cases”

In 1889 she was treasurer in COS's "Baltimore". In 1891, she became the general secretary of COS in this same city. After in 1900 she moved to Philadelphia because she was named secretary general of COS in this city. He worried a lot about the negative effects that the social worker could acquire. He placed special emphasis on warning and preventing the social worker from taking care only of bureaucratic issues.

Mary Richmond sought to individualize the client, establish a social diagnosis and grant the most appropriate relief. His method consists in the study of the case, its diagnosis and its treatment.

She is a woman very  interesting and I like it a lot for being one of the first women in this area, also she never had conventional education.