I: History and Case; 1: Clinical Social Work: The Development of a Discipline; 2: The Case; II: Paradigms; 3: Mental Structures and Personal Relations: Psychodynamic Theory in Clinical Social Work; 4: Adlerian Theory and Therapy; 5: Psychosocial Therapy; 6: Radical Behaviorism and Clinical Social Work; 7: Social Group Work as a Clinical Paradigm; 8: Cognitive Therapy; 9: Brief Task-Centered Treatment; 10: Family Therapy: A Structural Approach; 11: The Psychosocial Rehabilitation Model: An Ideology of Social Functioning; III: Metaparadigms; 12: The Eco-Systems Perspective; 13: Existential Social Work; 14: The Constructivist–Developmental Paradigm; 15: Cybernetic Epistemology; 16: Evolving a Personal Philosophy of Practice: Towards Eclecticism; 17: Epilogue