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This chapter delineates the scope of Clinical Social Research and Social Intervention and the organizational principles that govern it as a complex scientific field. Furthermore, the chapter outlines the study and theoretical elaboration of the theory of Social Intervention and the development of innovative theoretical models. The types and levels of interventions at the individual, community, and society, levels of understanding objective reality, socially constructed reality, and their codification for recipients and specialists in all fields of social therapy are key elements discussed. Additionally, the chapter asks what constitutes social diagnosis and treatment and the creation of valid protocols for social diagnosis and treatment.

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    The founding of Hull House as a progressive social settlement aimed at reducing poverty by providing an environment for a host of social interventions and education to working-class immigrants and laborers as a way to combat many social problems in the late 1800s and early 1900s served to inspire and inform the work of her contemporaries such as Mary Richmond. In discussing Hull House, Addams remarked, “The Settlement then, is an experimental effort to aid in the solution of the social and industrial problems which are engendered [caused] by the modern conditions of life in a great city” (Addams, 1910, p. 100).

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Chtouris, S., Miller, D.S. (2024). Clinical Social Research and Social Intervention. In: Diagnosis in Social Fields and Networks. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-52415-8_2

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