The contributors to this volume, each one carefully selected, reaffirm the framing perspectives and core values of the social work profession and identify fundamental challenges and tasks in developing theory and practice. Exploring contemporary yet no less essential concerns, they reflect the richness and creativity of theorizing in our time.

Introduction

Part One. Theory and Practice: Orienting Perspectives

1. Taking Multiplicity Seriously: Pluralism, Pragmatism, and Integrative Perspectives in Clinical Social Work, by William Borden

Part Two. Inner Experience and Outer Realities

2. Why Cognitive Therapy Needs Social Work, by Sharon Berlin

3. The Cognitivization of Psychoanalysis: Toward an Integration of Psychodynamic and Cognitive Theories, by Jerome C. Wakefield and Judith Baer

4. Social Work, by Psychobiography, by James J. Clark

5. Place Matters: Toward a Rejuvenated Theory of Environment for Direct Social Work Practice, by Susan P. Kemp

6. Integrating Developmental Theory and Systemic Perspectives: A Family Resilience Framework for Clinical Practice, by Froma Walsh

Part Three. Theory by Practice

7. Love and Justice: A Silenced Language of Integrated Practice?, by Janet Finn

8. The Role of Theory in Conducting Evidence-Based Clinical Practice, by Stanley McCracken and Tina Rzepnicki

9. Practice Theory: Ideas Embedded in a Wise Person's Professional Process, by Malcolm Payne

List of Contributors

Index