University of Minnesota - Gopher Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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Q aii m . LOOKING ON witli intense interest. Miss Hansen watches une ol her cases l uilil a scale model train. If she is to help patient, she must establish rapport. AFTER THE piiLieiit lias lell. N ' ola recorfis lit-r notes on lict;iphone. Her fin lings on the case may be brouRht up during staff meeting. RELIEVED OF at least a lew lru trations. boy puts on coat and sa.vs goodbye to social work- er Xola Hansen. During the past hour the t«o have playetl in sandbox and shot rubber-tipped darts at each other. . l Nola ' s suggestion. Iwiv drew horse on black- board «ith green chalk, said ho ever saw a green horse, anyway? Miss Hansen joined him in make-belie e game in which he took his horse from stable, rode him and fed him oats. I ' rnni obserx alinns made iluring pla hour, social worker may solve pa- tient ' s school problems. Joe was seven years old, and he was aving tr )iil)le learning in sehool. So his larcnts brought him to a elinie where a ' nivcrsity student .social worker was lorking. It takes aggressive pushing to learn, he student social worker says, and Joe f s afraid of pushing on anything. He ad many inner feelings he was afraid to it out. The first step, then, in helping Joe was to get him to let himself go. The social worker and Joe began to luilil ])lay sessions each week. . t first .Joe (inl ' wanted to do ' uxfiir things like making boats to show me that he wasn ' t si lly or wasting time , the worker says. Hacli hour he had to finish something to impress me or his i)arents. Then the .sttident convinced Joe he didn t have to make boats at the clinic: he should play and relax, lie started a war in a sandbox and, although no one e -er got killed, it continued from week to week. Gradually Joe began to let his aggression out, and the war got more violent. Eventually the elinie and the stinlent social wiu ' ker. ])utting classroom studies to ])ractiee. helped Joe Icaril to stlldv. Pose 63

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- NOLA HANSEN, STUDENT IN THE SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK, PUTS CLASSROOM EDUCATION TO PRACTICE IN PLAY ROOM OF WASHBURN CLINIC DIRECTOR of the School of Social AVork is Prof. John C. Kidneigh. His students divide their time between class and field work in their last year. Like Nola Han- sen, most students work in local clinics. Others do proup work at play- grounds or institutions. Page 62 PUSH, LEARN Student Social Worker Helps A Kid Learn How to Study

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0. X i t- - UNIVERSITY COLLEGE STUDENT HOMER MITCHELL WORKS AT HIS PART-TIME JOB DOING LETTERING AND SILK SCREEN WORK FOR ART DISPLAYS: FEW STUDENTS Admittance to U College Is Special Privilege for Elite If yoii happen ed to bump into some- one from University College this year, you may consider that you ' ve knoeked the shoulder of the elite. There just aren ' t many people in this eollege any more. In fact, there are only 45. University College represents the bottom rung on the ladder as far as the size of colleges goes. The College could be larger, but about Page 64