ABSTRACT
It is hard to describe family therapy without also thinking about social work. Both share common ground at the conceptual and practice levels. Each encompasses a way of looking at the individual in context, scrutinizing the relationship between behavior and environment, between part and whole. Family theory and social work reject a passive problem-solving stance and instead support active empowerment of people by tapping their existing resources, uncovering new ones, and creating a viable context for change.
