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This introductory text builds its thesis on the premise that social work is a social profession, and that it is in the use of the social relationship as the medium for helping that distinguishes social work from other professions. This social relationship, the authors argue, is then modelled as a social system, with the model being used as the framework for organizing theoretical content appropriate to practical social work fields such as families, and social groups, individuals, the formal organization, and the community.