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36 Int'l Soc. Work 5 (1993)

handle is hein.journals/intsocwk36 and id is 1 raw text is: Editorial Two of the articles in this issue of our journal address the critical need for an integrated approach to social work that bridges the micro/macro continuum. This is to ensure that our efforts all over the world have their optimum impact on the complex psycho- social systemic realities which we all face. Each presents us with paradigms that help us to build this critical conceptual and practice bridge. The Elliott article looks at the challenge from the perspective of contemporary theoretical perspectives and the Chung-Haynes article from the perspective of Confucian thinking from the fifth century BC. Several of the other articles discuss further challenges that emerge as our practices on a world-wide basis become increasingly multi- cultural. Hence we must not only understand the realities of each individual client we meet, but also the complex context in which they exist and the world issues that are a part of their day-to-day realities. From a macro perspective not only do we have to under- stand the complex contemporary issues that restrict the possibility of people achieving their optimum potential in our ever-changing world but, as the Schindler article teaches us, some of these situa- tions can only be understood from a basis that goes back to Biblical times. For me the increasing scope of our profession, one that like the universe is in an ongoing state of expansion, is exciting. As I ponder these issues I am also aware that in the next few days I will be involved in the difficult task of selecting yet another group of incoming students, eager to be social workers, conscious that we will have to turn many of them down due to lack of teaching resources. As mentioned in the Elliott article, many of these students, conscious of the extent of human suffering in this world, will have as their motivating goal a wish to deal with individuals, families and small groups in a helping, healing manner. We will talk about them as being more micro oriented than macro and will decry their apparent lack of sensitivity to systemic and social justice issues. International Social Work (SAGE, London, Newbury Park and New Delhi), Vol. 36 (1993), 5-6.

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