What Do We Mean by Constructive Social Work

摘要: Over recent years, in close discussions with others, we have been trying to develop an approach practice which call constructive social work (Parton and O'Byrne, 2000). While the elements discuss will be very familiar readers of this journal do feel idea can offer something is distinctive challenging.         The central purpose paper two-fold: first outline what mean by see as some its elements; second perspectives associated constructionism providing important theoretical frameworks for developing such practice. Before doing so, however, why it engage a task at present time. Why need now?