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USC Campus Elsie Herman Featured Profile:
Elsie Herman (1921-1998)
In a career that spanned nearly 50 years, Elsie Spira Herman was a pioneering practitioner with a private practice in social work, psychotherapy and marriage and family counseling. She helped define the term "clinical social worker" in Cali...
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