Yonata Feldman Papers, 1937-1981
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Yonata Feldman Papers
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Feldman, Yonata
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Biographical Note Yonata Feldman "with Mrs. Bell, ready for a call to service to the Comstock team" at the Smith School for Social Work baseball game, July 4, 1957 Yonata Feldman served on the faculty of the Smith College School for Social Work for many years. She was born in 1892 in Estonia and studied at the Imperial University of Jurjew; her education was interrupted when the Germans invaded Russia in 1912. Before emigrating to the United States, she taught at, and was principal of, an elementary school in Estonia. She earned her M.A. from the Chicago University School of Social Service Administration in 1923, specializing in the treatment of emotionally disturbed children. From 1923 to 1928 Feldman was a social worker at the Chicago Jewish Children's Bureau, and from 1925 to 1928 also worked with disturbed children at the Chicago Institute for Juvenile Research. From 1928 to 1961, she was employed at the Madeleine Borg Child Guidance Institute of the Jewish Board of Guardians in New York City, working her way up from caseworker to casework supervisor to "boro" supervisor. In 1950, she joined the faculty of the Smith College School for Social Work where she served until 1974. Throughout her career, she conducted seminars and institutes for various institutions and professional groups, among them Western Reserve University, The College of William and Mary, Mt. Sinai Hospital, the Presbyterian Hospital of the New York Medical Center, Lebanon Hospital and the Board of Education of the City of New York. She also served as case consultant for numerous institutions, social work agencies, and case workers in private practice. She died on August 28, 1981 in New York, NY.
Scope and Contents of the Collection Yonata Feldman's papers consist of 3.5 linear feet of material, dating from 1938 to 1981. They are divided into three series. Series I. Biographical Material (1980-81), .25", includes autobiographical statements about Feldman's experiences in German-occupied Russia during World War I, when she was separated from her family for an extended period. Also of interest are her reflections on and anecdotes about her years at the Smith College School for Social Work. Series II. Professional Activities (1940-81), 1.75', is comprised primarily of teaching records, which include supervisory and case notes. Case files are arranged alphabetically by surname of student (not by name of client). The series also contains teaching notes, syllabi, class rosters, critiques of case studies, summaries and minutes of seminars and institutes, typescripts of writings, bibliographies, and printed matter, as well as material pertaining to professional organizations with which Feldman was affiliated. Series III. Writings (1945-80), .5', includes typescripts and draft manuscripts of Feldman's writings. In Series IV. Photographs (1957-76, n.d.), .25', several images of Feldman and her S.C.S.S.W. students can be found.
Child psychology--Study and teaching--History--Sources
lcsh
Social work education--United States--History--Sources
Social work with children--United States--History--Sources
lcnaf
Smith College. School for Social Work.--Faculty--History--Sources
series
SERIES I. BIOGRAPHICAL MATERIAL
Curriculum vita and autobiographical statements, 1980-81, n.d.
SERIES II. PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Correspondence, 1948-75
Organizations
Council for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapists, 1969-73
International Conference on Child Psychiatry, 1954
Jewish Board of Guardians
Bronx Office, 1940-41
Borderline Project, 1954
National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis, 1956
New York Association for the Blind, 1969
Students
Supervisory and case notes
S-Z, unidentified, 1945-80
Teaching
Smith College School for Social Work
Program for Advanced Study--Advanced Casework
General information, 1961
Feldman's notes on sessions, 1961
Supervision in Social Casework
General information, 1965
Feldman's notes, 1965
Cases, 1965
Seminar 518: Roster, feedback form, 1977
Seminar 66A and B: Student cards, n.d.
Jewish Orientation and Training Seminars
Correspondence and general information, 1971
Cases discussed, 1971
Manhattan Center for Advanced Psychoanalytic Studies
General information, 1977-78
Student case notes, 1977-78
Feldman's notes
Courses taught at unidentified institutions
Two-Summer Project in Supervision
Feldman's notes on sessions, 1962
Cases discussed
General information, 1963
General information, 1964
Feldman's notes on sessions, 1964
Course 125: Feldman's notes, 1962
FC 104
Roster and notes, 1976
Feldman's notes for class discussion, 1976
Cases discussed, 1976
Feldman's notes, 1977-78
PT 9
Roster and notes, 1973
Students' case notes, 1973
Miscellaneous teaching material, 1973-77
Lectures by others, 1950-52
Miscellaneous notes, forms and unidentified fragments, 1938, n.d.
SERIES III. WRITINGS
List of published and unpublished articles, n.d.
"An Approach Towards Understanding the Parents of Emotionally Disturbed Children," typescript and published article, 1958
"An Aspect in the Training of the Beginning Caseworker," typescript, n.d.
"And a Little Child Shall Lead Them," typescript, n.d.
"The Attempt at Healthy Insulation in the Withdrawn Child," published article, 1953
"The Case of Miriam Kohn," published article and photocopy, 1945
"Case Presentation for the Session on Cultural Content in the Curriculum of the School for Social Work," typescript, n.d
"A Case Work Approach in Apparently Unreachable Cases," typescript, 1958
"Contributing to Case Work Evaluation," typescript, n.d.
"Culture and Diagnosis," typescript, n.d.
"Direct Case Work With Children," typescripts and draft manuscripts, n.d.
"The Disguised Cry for Help," typescript, 1961
"The Early History of Modern Psychoanalysis," published article, 1978
"Ego Involvement in Case Work Training," typescript, 1960
"Ego Reinforcement in the Schizophrenic Child," typescript and published article, 1956
"Emotional Growing Pains," typescript, 1947
"Environmental Setting in a Child Guidance Agency," typescript, n.d.
"An Episode," typescript, n.d.
"An Evaluation of Intake," typescript, n.d.
"How Can Social Workers Stand Their Work," typescript, n.d.
"The Initial Investigation in Case Work," typescript, n.d.
"Listening and Understanding," photocopy of published article, 1975
"The Narcissistic Parent Who Needs Some Therapy in a Child Guidance Setting Before Permitting Help for Her Child," typescript, n.d.
"The Need for Insulation Reinforcement in the Schizophrenic Child," typescript, 1953
"A Note on Social Work History," typescript, n.d.
"One Aspect of Casework Training Through Supervision," published article, 1953
"An Outline of a Clinical Symptom Picture in Borderline Cases," typescript, 1947-48
"Peddling Case Work," typescript and draft manuscript, n.d.
"The Problem of the Giver and Receiver," typescript and published article, 1980
"The Problem of Uteral Anxiety," typescript, n.d.
"The Feldman Theory of Intrauterine Anxiety: Further Case Illustrations," by D.J. Riccio, typescript, n.d.
"Report of the Experience of the Bronx Office With Youth Board Cases," typescript, n.d.
"The Struggle for Insulation in Adolescence," typescript, 1952
"Study of Divided Cases," typescript, 1937
"The Supervisory Process--An Experience in Teaching and Learning," typescript, n.d.
"Sympathy and Empathy," draft manuscript, n.d.
"The Teaching Aspect of Casework Supervision, published article, 1950
"What is the Real Meaning of 'Acceptance?'," published article, 1958
"Withdrawal as a Mechanism for Insulation," typescript, n.d.
The Withdrawn Child
Proposal for book, n.d.
Preliminary outline and working paper, n.d.
Notes, 1954, n.d.
Table of contents and outline, n.d.
Fragments, n.d.
SERIES IV. PHOTOGRAPHS
Photographs, 1957-1976, n.d.
Photo album, 1957
BOOKS ON SHELF
Katherine Gabel, ed., Master Teacher and Supervisor in Clinical Social Work: Yonata Feldman (Northampton, MA: Smith College School for Social Work, 1982) [2 copies].