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The American Association of Hospital Social Workers formed.

Date: 1918

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The association is formed out of continued interest in the professionalization of social work. It also begins the split between medical and psychiatric social work, as medical social work begins to focus on casework, and psychiatric social work, under the influence of Freudianism, begins to focus on analysis.