ABSTRACT

Family health social work practice emphasizes the attainment of the holistic well-being of a family system and its members. Family health is “manifested by the development of, and continuous interaction among, the economic, physical, mental, emotional, social, cultural, and spiritual dimensions of the family that results in its holistic well-being as well as that of its members” (Yuen and Skibinski, 2003, p. 205).