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Process is defined in the Oxford English Dictionary as ‘continuous and regular action or succession of actions taking place or carried out in definite manner and leading to the accomplishment of some result’. The important features in this definition are the purposeful nature of a process and the complexity inherent in its being a construction consisting of a number of interdependent elements. These characteristics are certainly applicable to social work given the wide range of its activities, and this fact underlines in turn the importance of a unifying concept within which to analyse these separate elements.
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Butrym, Z.T. (1976). The Social-Work Process. In: The Nature of Social Work. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-15685-6_5
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