ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses how psychology and counselling have informed and influenced social work’s theory and practice from its earliest beginnings. I do this by presenting psychological and counselling theories pertaining to individual change in historical order and identifying their adaptation and uses for social work’s developing practice. In conclusion, I identify how the more contemporary theoretical developments in counselling and psychology and social work, which focuses on social justice issues, can link individual change with a structural analysis to address increasingly complex personal and social problems.
