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Let us know how access to this document benefits you.An exploration into the field of hospital social work" (1978). Dissertations and Theses. Paper 2765. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Through'out this year, while meeting with/talRing to my advisors about this project, 1 often wondered,. "Where do they ffnd th~ time?" The truth of the matter is, they did not have any time. Yet they were always somehow available when needed to offer help, assistance, and guidance. My thanks to Nancy Koroloff and Jack Hegrenes. PREFACE When I initially applied to graduate school, I had in mind to "specialize," after the first year, in hospital s~cial work. For a number of ·reasons, I had, in the past, always liked the 11 feel 11 of the hospital setting. Also,' I had always been ·impres~ed with the hospital social workers that l had encountered during my previous jobs. They seemed .to have been in key positions· to provide some unique services that were, so to speak, on the. "cutting edgeu of life/sp~iety. · In-short, my desir~ to 11 speci~lize 11 • was based more· 011 impres$ions, rath.er than on actual job experiences within a hospital 9r k,nowledge of what hospital social work really was. Toward the ~nd.of my first year of graduate s~hool~ I received my second year field placement; it would· be in a hospital setting. The news actually represented the i • unofficial 11 beginnin~ of this project, for I was immediately struck by two thoughts: · ··(l) the r~~lization of how little I knew about hospital social work, ~mc;i ('2) a.curiosity ()Ver what exactly this profession was that I haq m~naged to Qet myself into. As a way to acquire some knowledge and to.sgtisfy some of my curiosity and int~rest, I began to read about $OC1~1 work in a hospital setting. The more I read, the mare engaged I became. The literature seemed to suggest',.that hospital social·work was, for a variety of reasons , a struggling· profession. Although rewarding for sqme, it seemed to also have the.capacity to be, in ~eneral,·quit~ frustratin~ for many others. This really interested me. Why were workers from this v profession frustrated? What kinds of problems were unique unto hospital social work? Did such dissatisfaction exist in actuality, or only on the printed page? Consequently, in order to continue exploring this field (i.e., a field in which I was to now have my second year of field placement) as …