Family-Centered Practice

Family‐Oriented Program Models and Professional Helpgiving Practices*

“…F amily-oriented approaches in social work, human services, and related fields are grounded in different conceptual and theoretical models that guide the ways in which interventions are conceptualized and implemented (e.g., Adams & Nelson, 1995;Boss, Doherty, LaRossa, Schumm, & Steinmetz, 1993;Griffin & Greene, 1999;Pare, 1995). In the time since Hartman and Laird (1983) called for adoption of family centered social work practice, there has been burgeoning interest in operationalizing different family oriented models (e.g., Desai, 1997;Jung, 1996;Keith, 1995;McCroskey & Meezan, 1998;Nelson, Landsman, & Deutelbaum, 1990), and in developing measurement procedures that distinguish between similar but different intervention paradigms (Booth & Cottone, 2000;Doherty, 1995;Dunst, in press).…”