Talk:Financial social work

Disputed "History" section
The history section of the "Financial social work" article is inaccurate. Wolfsohn did not "start" financial social work. The profession has a long history of addressing financial issues in the household (see Stuart, P. H. (2016). Financial Capability in Early Social Work Practice: Lessons for Today. Social Work, 61(4), 297-303 for further explanation). Financial social work did decline in the early-20th century, but Michael Sherraden is widely regarded as the social work scholar who revived the profession's interest in financial social work with his 1991 book Assets and the Poor. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 47.39.197.253 (talk) 20:03, 7 September 2017 (UTC)

Furthermore, the citations claiming that Wolfsohn started financial social work do not mention Wolfsohn by name. This constitutes a misleading use of citations. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 47.39.197.253 (talk) 20:20, 7 September 2017 (UTC)

If the intention of this article is to claim that "financial social work" is a model developed by Wolfsohn, then that needs to be more explicit. As written, this article conflates a model with the actual practice of financial social work. Even then, however, I would be curious to see academic literature cited to support that claim. As it stands, I have yet to see any models of financial social work in the academic literature. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 47.39.197.253 (talk) 20:39, 7 September 2017 (UTC)


 * Wolfsohn started Financial Social Work and created a Financial Social Work model as indicated in the Encyclopedia of Social Work article. While social workers were engaged in financial assistance prior to Wolfsohn creating this term/naming this field, she is the one who created this term and the first financial social work model. Wolfsohn, R., & Michaeli, D. (2014-02-03). Financial Social Work. Encyclopedia of Social Work. Dorlee Michaeli (talk) 15:46, 19 October 2017 (UTC)


 * I agree with 47.39.197.253 that this section, and the entire article, wrongly presents Wolfsohn's perspective/approach as the entirety of financial social work. I removed "the citations claiming that Wolfsohn started financial social work [that] do not mention Wolfsohn by name", which 47.39.197.253 noted as misleading. Also notice that Wolfsohn & Michaeli's article on financial social work in Oxford's Encyclopedia of Social Work was replaced a month ago (28 August 2019) with a completely different article by Sherraden & Huang. I just added Disputed to the "History" section, and I added a "Further reading" section with more sources, but the whole "History" section, and perhaps much of the rest of the article, needs to be rewritten to better reflect the wider scope and longer history of financial social work. Biogeographist (talk) 14:09, 4 October 2019 (UTC)
 * @Dorlee Michaeli and @Biogeographist: I too strongly agree the History section of Financial social work needs to be re-written to coincide with Stuart's (2016) article. I am a student in a Personal Financial Planning course and would like to work on the History section as part of my coursework. My goal is to re-direct this section to focus on the beginnings of financial social work starting in the 1920s with home economists and gravitating towards social workers to education families on how to budget and increase financial capability (FC). The article by Stuart (2016) noted in the late 19th century, the terminology "thrift" was used to educate families on how to manage money focusing on low to middle income families. Financial social work has history in educating families through extension agents and educational programming that is not mentioned in this section. I hope to work on revamping this section to include this information.
 * There is not one person who can be responsible for creating the field, financial social work. There are no readings to support this statement as @Biogeographist noted the Encyclopedia article stating this information has been removed. There is a long history of financial social work with many facets to it including the interdisciplinary work it holds. Triscamp (talk) 15:26, 26 September 2023 (UTC)

Move to financial literacy
I suggest this article is merged with financial literacy. The content is encompassed by the definitions of financial literacy.

Financial social work is not a widely used term and this content would be more accessible to users within the financial literacy article. Toby64 (talk) 14:34, 19 June 2023 (UTC)

Wiki Education assignment: Psychology of Financial Planning II
— Assignment last updated by Srystrom (talk) 17:20, 25 August 2023 (UTC)