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Scott Briar papers, 1957-1981
Overview of the Collection
- Creator
- Briar, Scott, 1926-
- Title
- Scott Briar papers
- Dates
- 1957-1981 (inclusive)19571981
- Quantity
- 5 cubic feet (5 boxes)
- Collection Number
- (Accession No. 4119-003)
- Summary
- Papers of a professor and dean of the University of Washington School of Social Work.
- Repository
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University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections
Special Collections
University of Washington Libraries
Box 352900
Seattle, WA
98195-2900
Telephone: 2065431929
Fax: 2065431931
speccoll@uw.edu - Access Restrictions
-
The papers are open to all users.
Material stored offsite; advance notice required for use.
- Languages
- English
- Sponsor
- Funding for encoding this finding aid was partially provided through a grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Biographical NoteReturn to Top
Joseph Scott Briar was born on July 27, 1926, and died on June 17, 1998. He received his bachelor's degree from Washburn University in 1950, his master's degree in social work from Washington University in St. Louis in 1952, and his doctorate in social welfare from Columbia University in 1961. Between his master's and doctoral degrees, he worked as a psychiatric social worker and supervisor for the Menninger Foundation in Topeka, Kansas. He was a professor in the School of Social Welfare at the University of California, Berkeley, from 1959 to 1971. At Berkeley his research interests included work with youth and families.
Briar became professor and dean of the University of Washington School of Social Work in 1971. In 1975, the School of Social Work began a Ph.D. program in social welfare. This program had been in preparation for nearly a decade, and Briar played an important part in the final steps of its creation. He served as dean until 1988 and taught until 1990.
In addition to teaching and research, Briar was involved in a number of professional organizations. He was the book review editor of Social Work, the journal of the National Association of Social Workers, from 1971 to 1972 and editor-in-chief from 1972 to 1976. He spoke at several events for the Council on Social Work Education, and his paper from the 1973 annual meeting, "Effective Social Work in Direct Practice: Implications for Education," (box 2, folders 7 to 11) generated great interest. In the 1980s, he led the American Association of Schools of Social Work, which is also sometimes known as the Conference of Deans and Directors of Schools of Social Work, and the National Association of Deans and Directors of Schools of Social Work. In addition, he was a consultant to the Office of the Secretary of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare from 1966 to 1969.
Content DescriptionReturn to Top
The Scott Briar papers contain records from many stages of Briar's career, including correspondence, speeches and writings, conferences and conventions, subject files, case files, and photographs. The papers also include records from the University of Washington School of Social Work that document the establishment of a Ph.D. program in social welfare; records from the National Association of Deans and Directors of Schools of Social Work; and correspondence, editorials, and meeting files regarding the publication Social Work.
Use of the CollectionReturn to Top
Restrictions on Use
The creator's literary rights have not been transferred to the University of Washington Libraries.
Administrative InformationReturn to Top
Arrangement
Arranged in four series:
- Personal and professional papers, 1957-1981
- University of Washington School of Social Work records, 1966-1979
- National Association of Deans and Directors of Schools of Social Work records, 1982-1987
- Social Workrecords, 1971-1976
Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top
Personal and professional papers, 1957-1981Return to Top
The personal and professional papers series contains Briar's correspondence, speeches, writings, documentation from his participation in professional conferences, research files, and reports. In addition, subject files document a wide range of Briar's research interests and casework, as well as his other professional activities. Much of the series consists of material from his work and research at the University of California, Berkeley. The curriculum files include casework used by Briar in his teaching at Berkeley.
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
---|---|---|
Box/Folder | ||
1/1-2 | Biographical information |
1962-1979 |
General correspondence |
||
Box/Folder | ||
1/3 | Rosenblatt, Aaron |
1972-1973 |
1/4 | Turem, Jerry S. |
1973-1974 |
1/5-25 | Miscellaneous |
1959-1978 |
Correspondence regarding: |
||
Box/Folder | ||
1/26 | Miscellaneous editorials |
1976-1977 |
1/27 | National Conference on Social Welfare, Family Policy
Commission |
1977 |
1/28 | National Conference on Social Welfare, Future of
Social Services Task Force |
1976 |
1/29 | Position offers |
1963-1968 |
1/30 | Reprint requests |
1978-1979 |
1/31 | Social Work Group for the Study of Behavioral
Methods |
1975 |
1/32 | Undergraduate textbook |
1972 |
1/33 | Wichita State Hospital workshop |
1977 |
Speeches |
||
Box/Folder | ||
1/34 | Annual Meeting of the Family Counseling Service of
Portland, Oregon |
1967 |
1/35 | "An Exploratory Study of the Connection Between
Research and Social Policy Development" |
1971 |
1/36 | "Future of Social Work Practice" |
1973 |
1/37 | Marin Association for Mental Health |
1962 |
1/38 | Northwest Regional Child Welfare Steering Committee
Meeting |
1980 |
1/39 | Miscellaneous |
1977 |
Writings |
||
Box/Folder | ||
2/1 | "Behavior Modification in Total
Institutions" |
1972 |
2/2 | "Collaboration Between Schools of Social Work and
University Medical Centers" |
undated |
2/3 | "Contemporary Issues and Trends in Social Work
Practice," article for
Encyclopedia of Social Work
|
1976-1977 |
2/4 | "Current Crisis in Social Casework" |
1967 |
2/5 | "Delinquency, Situational Inducements and Commitment
to Conformity" |
1965 |
2/6 | "Divorce and the Pursuit of Happiness" |
1967 |
2/7-11 | "Effective Social Work in Direct Practice:
Implications for Education," Council on Social Work Education Annual Program
meeting paper
Also includes notes, correspondence, and other materials
regarding the paper.
|
1973 |
2/12 | "A Factor in Analytic and Trait Interference Study of
the Leary Interpersonal Checklist" |
1963 |
2/13 | "The Family as an Organization: An Approach to Family
Diagnosis and Treatment" |
undated |
2/14 | "In Summary" |
1977 |
2/15 | "Needed: A Simple Definition of Social
Work" |
1981 |
2/16 | "Police Encounters with Juveniles" |
1964 |
2/17 | Review of "Notes on Social Casework: A Problem Solving
Process" by Helen Harris Perlman |
1957 |
2/18 | "Some Elements, Issues and Problems in the Early
Relations between Social Casework, Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis" |
1957 |
2/19 | "The Theory in Studying Effects of Client Social Class
on Students' Judgments" |
1961 |
2/20 | "Toward Autonomous Social Diagnosis" |
1976 |
2/21 | "Two Perspectives for the Diagnosis and Treatment of
the Family as a Social System" |
1962 |
2/22 | "Welfare Recipients' Attitudes" |
undated |
2/23 | "Why Children's Allowances?" |
1969 |
2/24 | Miscellaneous |
1974, undated |
Speeches and writings of others |
||
Box/Folder | ||
2/25 | "The Family as a Unit of Study and Treatment"
|
1969 |
2/26 | "Health Journal" |
undated |
2/27 | Peterson, Donald and London, Perry, "A Role for
Cognition in the Behavioral Treatment of a Child's Elimination Disturbance"
|
1967 |
2/28 | Piliavin, Irving |
1963, 1968, undated |
2/29 | Strean, Herbert S, "Psychoanalytically-Oriented
Casework versus Behavior Modification Therapy" |
undated |
2/30 | Titmuss, Richard, "Welfare Rights, Law and Discretion"
|
1971 |
2/31 | Van Wagenen, Richard D., "Fair Hearing Study"
|
1977 |
2/32 | Wollins, Martin, "Societal Function of Social
Welfare," and "Group Care: Friend or Foe?" |
1968 |
Conferences and conventions |
||
Box/Folder | ||
2/33 | Child Welfare League of America |
1962 |
2/34 | Council on Social Work Education Annual Program
Meeting, Phoenix |
1976 |
2/35 | Council on Social Work Education Southwest Regional
Workshop: Integrating Practice and Research Curriculum |
1980 |
2/36 | Department of Health, Education and Welfare Social
Rehabilitation Service Conference |
1976 |
2/37 | Directions in Social Work Conference, Portland State
University |
1973 |
2/38 | Dissemination Conference, Title XX |
1976 |
2/39 | Domestic Council Conference |
1975 |
2/40 | George Warren Brown School of Social Work, Washington
University, 50th Anniversary Conference |
1976 |
2/41 | International Council on Social Welfare |
1976 |
2/42 | National Association of State Budget
Officers |
1975-1976 |
2/43-44 | National Association of Social Workers, National
Conference on the Future of Social Work Research, San Antonio |
1978 |
2/45 | National Conference on Social Welfare |
1977 |
2/46 | Ph.D. Conference, Ann Arbor |
1976 |
2/47 | Social Dynamics and Social Intervention |
1976 |
2/48 | Conference of Social Work Deans, San Diego |
1977 |
2/49 | Social Work in the New Age of Accountability
Institute |
1973 |
2/50 | Social Work Practice: Future Directions |
1973 |
3/1-2 | Miscellaneous |
1975-1977 |
Bulletins |
||
Box/Folder | ||
3/3 |
University of California Bulletin
|
1965 |
3/4 | Menninger Clinic, "Diagnosis and the Difference it
Makes" |
1975 |
Reports |
||
Box/Folder | ||
3/5 | Report to the Governor on the Department of Social and
Health Services [Washington] |
1977 |
3/6 | National Commission on Families and Public
Policies |
1978 |
Research files |
||
Box/Folder | ||
3/7 | Transcripts of interviews
Contains interviews of elementary school children regarding
school and family life, by unidentified interviewers.
|
undated |
3/8-9 | Police observation
Contains observational notes compiled by Briar, Irving
Piliavin and Ray Turner during a study of the Oakland, CA police department,
with specific attention towards juveniles.
|
1963 |
Curriculum files |
||
Box/Folder | ||
3/10-11 | Casework, general
Casework studies and reports used as materials for courses on
social work.
|
1961-1964 |
Subject files |
||
Box/Folder | ||
3/12 | Advocacy |
1972 |
3/13 | Briar-Hutchins social work course
materials |
1975 |
3/14 | Briar-Strean debate, New York University |
1972 |
3/15 | University of Chicago visits |
1974 |
3/16 |
Children and Youth Services Review
|
1978 |
3/17 | Comparative analysis of family treatment
methods |
1972 |
3/18 | "Emotional Stresses in the Family" |
1965 |
3/19 | Faculty retreat |
1976-1977 |
3/20 | Family research |
1962-1964 |
3/21 | "Getting Published" workshop |
1975 |
3/22 | Health affairs advisory |
1974 |
3/23 | Holiday open house |
1973-1981 |
3/24 | Menninger Foundation |
1975 |
3/25-27 | Multiple impact therapy
Information regarding the use of multiple impact therapy, and
Briar's observation of it's practice in a University of Texas Medical Center
case.
|
1959-1963 |
3/28 | National Association of Social Workers, Washington
D.C. |
1969 |
3/29 | National Commission for Children in Need of
Parents |
1978 |
3/30 | National Science Foundation Proposal |
1972 |
3/31 |
Problems and issues in social
casework
|
1972-1973 |
3/32 | San Diego meeting of San Diego State University and
local chapters of the National Association of Social Workers |
1977 |
3/33 | Speaking engagements |
1975-1976 |
3/34 | Task centered casework |
1975-1976 |
3/35 | U.S. President Commission on Mental Health Task Panel
on Manpower and Personnel |
1978 |
3/36 | University governance |
1968-1971 |
3/37 | Washington D.C. trip |
1977 |
3/38 | Welfare fraud |
1968 |
3/39 | University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee,
consultation |
1973 |
Box/Folder | ||
4/1 | Newsletters |
1972-1974 |
4/2 | Brochures |
1965-1966 |
4/3 | Photographs
Contains portraits of Scott Briar and photos of members of the
University of Washington, School of Social Work.
|
undated |
4/4 | Miscellany |
1969 |
4/5 | Clippings |
1965-1972 |
University of Washington, School of Social Work records, 1966-1979Return to Top
The University of Washington, School of Social Work series contains records from the first decade of Briar's tenure as dean of the school. The bulk relates to the creation of the doctoral program in social welfare. Correspondence includes inquiries from students interested in applying to the program, some of which date almost 10 years before the actual inception of the program. The Ad Hoc Social Welfare Committee files include the proposal for a doctoral degree program in social welfare.
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
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Box/Folder | ||
4/6 | General correspondence |
1975-1978 |
Correspondence regarding: |
||
Box/Folder | ||
4/7 | Council of Higher Education and the proposed Ph.D
program in Social Welfare |
1973-1974 |
4/8 | Job inquiries for School of Social Work
positions |
1971-1972 |
4/9-13 | Ph.D. program, applicant inquiries |
1966-1974 |
4/14-19 | Ph.D. program in social welfare |
1971-1974 |
Reports |
||
Box/Folder | ||
4/20 | Review of master of social work program |
1973 |
Subject files |
||
Box/Folder | ||
4/21 | Core requirements |
1976 |
4/22-24 | Doctoral program in social welfare |
1974 |
4/25 | Faculty curricula vitae |
1974 |
Box/Folder | ||
4/26 | University of Washington, School of Social Work,
Administrative Group |
1979 |
4/27 | University of Washington, School of Social Work,
Personnel Committee |
1979 |
4/28 | University of Washington, School of Social Work, Ph.D.
Program Committee |
1971 |
University of Washington, School of Social Work, Social
Welfare Committee (Ad Hoc) |
||
Proposals |
||
Box/Folder | ||
4/29 | "The Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Field of
Social Welfare" |
1970 |
4/30 | "Information to Supplement a Request for
Authorization of a Doctor of Philosophy in Social Welfare Program at the
University of Washington" |
1973 |
Box/Folder | ||
4/31 | Reports |
1972 |
American Association of Schools of Social Work (AASSW) records, 1982-1987Return to Top
AASSW was an organization concerned with ensuring excellence in social work education programs and was led by Briar in the mid 1980s. It went through two name changes while Briar was in charge: the Conference of Deans and Directors of Schools of Social Work until 1985, when it became the AASSW, and the National Association of Deans and Directors of Schools of Social Work in 1987. Briar was a proponent of the 1987 name change because he felt it better represented the nature of the group as an organization of administrators, rather than that of schools.
The series contains correspondence of AASSW, meeting minutes, subject files related to program accreditation and AASSW by-laws, and AASSW's interaction with the Council on Social Work Education.
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
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Box/Folder | ||
4/32-37 | General correspondence |
1985-1987 |
Correspondence Regarding: |
||
Box/Folder | ||
4/38 | Dues negotiations with the Council on Social Work
Education |
1985 |
4/39 | Tax exemption and non-profit status |
1985 |
4/40 | U.S. National Institute of Mental Health |
1986 |
Box/Folder | ||
4/41 | Minutes |
1985 |
4/42 | Conference file: fall meeting, Chicago |
1985 |
4/43 | Memoranda |
1985-1986 |
4/43 | Membership lists |
1985 |
Subject files |
||
Box/Folder | ||
5/1 | Accreditation |
1984-1987 |
5/2 | Accreditation surveys |
1986-1987 |
5/3 | By-laws survey |
1986 |
5/4 | Council on Social Work Education |
1987 |
AASSW Taskforce on the Future Role and Structure of
Graduate Schools of Social Work Education |
||
Box/Folder | ||
5/5-6 | General correspondence |
1982-1984 |
5/7-8 | Reports |
1983 |
Box/Folder | ||
5/9 | AASSW Taskforce on Implementation |
1985-1987 |
5/10-11 | AASSW Taskforce on Quality in Graduate Social Work
Education |
1983-1984 |
Social Work Records, 1971-1976Return to Top
Contains records documenting Briar's service as book review editor and editor-in-chief of Social Work , the journal for the National Association of Social Workers. Primarily includes correspondence, copies of Briar's editorials, and meeting files.
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
---|---|---|
General correspondence |
||
Box/Folder | ||
5/12-13 | Book review editor |
1971-1972 |
5/14-17 | Editor-in-chief |
1972-1976 |
5/18-25 | Editorial board |
1972-1976 |
5/26 | Miscellaneous |
1974-1976 |
Box/Folder | ||
5/27-29 | Editorials |
1973-1975 |
5/30-31 | Meeting files |
1971-1972 |
5/32 | Subject file: future issue |
1974 |
Names and SubjectsReturn to Top
Subject Terms
- College teachers--Washington (State)--Seattle--Archives
- Family social work--Research--United States
- Schools of social work--Faculty--Archives
- Schools of social work--United States
- Schools of social work--Washington (State)--Seattle
- Social service--Periodicals
- Social service--Research--United States
- Social service--Societies, etc
- Social work education--Curricula
- Social work education--United States
- Social work education--Washington (State)--Seattle
- Social work with youth--Research--United States
- Social workers--Washington (State)--Seattle--Archives
Personal Names
- Briar, Scott, 1926- --Archives
- Rosenblatt, Aaron
- Turem, Jerry S
Corporate Names
- American Association of Schools of Social Work
- Conference of Deans and Directors of Schools of Social Work
- Council on Social Work Education
- National Association of Deans and Directors of Schools of Social Work (U.S.)
- National Association of Social Workers
- University of Washington--Faculty--Archives
- University of Washington. School of Social Work
- University of Washington. School of Social Work--Curricula
Geographical Names
- United States--Social conditions--20th century
Form or Genre Terms
- Photographs
- articles
- case files
- correspondence
- reports
- research (document genres)
- writings
Titles within the Collection
- Social work
Other Creators
-
Corporate Names
- University of Washington. University Archives
Names and SubjectsReturn to Top
Subject Terms
- University Archives/Faculty Papers (University of Washington)