Stevenson, brought up in a Presbyterian home, found that biblical allusions were a useful way of delineating good and evil. In the first chapter, for example, the narrator Utterson remarks quaintly that he inclines to Cain's heresy--he lets his brother go to the Devil (e.
School-based social workers must have strong communication skills and relationships with a variety of social agencies. The primary duty of a school-based social worker involves counseling students by meeting with them to discuss the issues they face and their root causes.
Increasingly, they also provide post-adoption counseling to help older adoptees deal with issues of self-identity, loss and self esteem as well as medical problems that may have a genetic component. Social workers provide a wide gamut of services in the foster-care system as well. These services are critical as the number of children in foster care continues to rise. In this arena, social workers assess at risk families to determine if a child needs placement.