ABSTRACT

International social work is a helping profession that defies barriers, creates change, and embraces challenges as opportunities. Servant leadership (SL) uses service to help and influence others, incorporates an awareness of self, and empathetically puts others first. The combination of international social work and SL may seem like an unlikely pair, but they both share integrity and service as fundamental underpinnings. Building upon this shared basis, the integrated principles of humanity, community, and intelligence originate to form the integrated principle-based approach (IPA). These principles show a coalescence of international social work principles and SL principles and they function as a method of categorization.