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...... The development of assessments in a variety of social work fields have allowed social workers to use frameworks in order to better determine the situations affecting those whom social workers seek to serve. For example, Ferreiro, Warren, and Konacs 1986 study established a complex framework assessment for social workers efforts in dealing with those who are suffering from divorce. The assessment not only allowed social workers and mental health workers to structure their work with divorcing families, but also allowed them understand the clients divorce-related difficulties so appropriate interventions [could] be targeted (439). In the same vein and near the same year, Buckner and Salts publication identified an assessment for couples intending to marry. The premarital assessment was designed to meet the needs of couples at various stages of relationship development (513). In addition, the assessment was also designed to aid in the training of workers dealing with the engaged couples (513). Similarly, James Brays 1995 study discussed the importance of family assessments and proposed a variety of methods for improving these assessments and their evaluations, a practice that would become a trend among social workers and sociologists, allowing the ever-changing society to be represented in the assessments and

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