The War on Poverty: A Civilian Perspective

Abstract

This is not a necessary concomitant of their disciplines.And we would urge that social workers, educators, counsellors, administrators, and placement personnel should think through the possibility of creating within their professions new adversary and grievance-presenting roles.Lawyers have had to do the converse in modifying their pure 'adversar, model in the context of administrative law and arbitration.4. We recognize, of course, that a lawyer's duties include broadening his clients" perspectives to enable them to recognize when a demand is self-defeating or unrealistic, and also involve assisting clients to define problems for themselves and to assess and reconsider their initial demand.5. See, e.g., Silberman, UpfromApahy -The Woodlawn Erperinent, Commentary, May, 194, at 51. Saul D. Alinsky, in organizing the poor, found it necessary to use his own professional staff of city planner and consultants to critique the city'

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