Capacity building for integrated family-centered practice.(Special Centennial Issue)

The profession of social work has made distinctive and important contributions to individual, family, and community social welfare, because it has avoided the excessive reductionism found in other helping professions. Unlike these other helping professions, social work has addressed economic and occupational needs of individuals, families, and their communities in a unique way. As a new century dawns, it is appropriate to look back and reflect and then to look ahead toward continuing challenges and emergent needs of individuals, families, and their surrounding communities. This article hi