To be Integrative, through which students learn to see beyond boundaries of separate cases, client populations and troubles, fields of practice, and levels of intervention.
To cross system levels and practice methods, based on assessment to improve the person in environment interface, in which “person is a metaphor for the various size client systems.”
To be a common base of knowledge, practice principles, and general stages of practice used by practitioners in working with diverse populations, fields, and settings across systems and intervention levels.
To require complementary expertise, including specific knowledge and skills related to particular contexts of social work practice.
To be nonprescriptive, nondeterministic, including clear demand for adaptation and flexibility in its use, using critical approaches to understanding needs, contexts, and objective.