Abstract
The emergence of family-centered practice, including family-based and family-preservation services, is a promising development in human services (Laird, 1995), with the potential to revitalize child-welfare agencies (Cole, 1995). The vigorous, diverse development of family-centered helping approaches in social work, family therapy, and other disciplines is producing a rich, but at times perplexing, variety of therapeutic approaches (see Hartman & Laird, 1983; Laird. 1995; Nichols & Schwartz, 1995). Family-centered practice's diversity presents practitioners with a problem: How does a family- centered helper find his or her way amid a dazzling assortment of options.
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