11374 is located in the state of New York in the Metro New York City metro area. Zip code 11374 is primarily located in Queens County. The official postal service name used for 11374 is REGO PARK, New York.
organized work directed toward the betterment of social conditions in the community, as by seeking to improve the condition of the poor, to promote the welfare of children, etc. Origin of social work. 1915-1920. First recorded in 1915-20. Related forms. social worker, noun.
It was first commonly used by psychologist Erik Erikson in his description of the stages of psychosocial development. Mary Richmond, pioneer of American social work regarded there to be a linear relationship between cause and effect in a diagnostic process. In 1941 Gordon Hamilton renamed the 1917 concept of social diagnosis as psychosocial study.