The Christian life becomes incarnate in the
psychosocial development of adult life as it is now being
described by people like Levinson for men and Sheehy for women.69
The «practice of clinical social work» is defined as the use of scientific and applied knowledge, theories, and methods for the purpose of
describing, preventing, evaluating, and treating individual, couple, marital, family, or group behavior, based on the person - in - situation perspective of
psychosocial development, normal and abnormal behavior, psychopathology, unconscious motivation, interpersonal relationships, environmental stress, differential assessment, differential planning, and data gathering.