The Association of Psychiatric Social Workers (APSW) was the main professional body for

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s looking after the welfare of mentally ill people in the

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from 1929 to 1970. In 1970 the association merged with six other social workers' organisations to form the

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, having been a member of the Standing Conference of Organisations of Social Workers since 1962. The archives of the Association are held at Warwick University.

References

External links

Catalogue of the APSW archives
held at the

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