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Education for social work practice: a cognitive, cross-cultural approach

Howard Goldstein, DSW, is protessor at the School of Applied Social Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio. The question of the relevance of western models, theories and methods of social work practice for professional education in other nations has become a matter of increasing international interest. Concerns about this matter take many forms: whether or not, for example, western perspectives on practice are really responsive to the personal and social needs of the populations of other regions; the implications of built-in cultural biases; and whether it is incumbent