Conceptual Approaches to Research on Family and Social Work

Abstract

This article aims to outline some conceptualizations in the research on family, which are eventually taken up by social work, according to family configurations that exist in social realities affected by changes occurred in the course of time. For this effect, a conceptual methodology is presented based on various authors with the aim to approach to family dynamics and to achieve an analysis that will lead to questioning of research in social work, in the wake of new ways of family formations and family types.