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The social complexity and challenges which the social workers are facing in this century XXI, mainly in the urban centers ofthe country, take us to think and to evalúate the new tendencies in the professional intervention. Faced with the social transformations of as much impact in the life of the human beings, the search of integral solutions for the problems is suggested. The interdisciplinary collaboration considers as a form of cooperation between disciplines helps us to extend the fragmentation of the knowledge through the specialization, not opposing us to this one, but harmonizing several specializations disciplines. This allowed us to approach the complexity of the problems, the felt needs and to find better solutions covering the emptiness that result from specialization and the limited participation of professionals of some disciplines in their commitment to transform the existing order. The monodisciplinary approaches and the specialization, are with drawing in front of work forms where the rigid organization is replaced by collaborations, coalitions where the centralized power is replaced by the empowering of the participants and wherethe hierarchies of being able yield their space to horizontal structures. The author shares her experience with Student Professional Practices in the Project CAUCE, assigned to the Río Piedras Campus of the University of Puerto Rico, within the context of a Model for Interdisciplinary Collaboration, of which their five components; interdependence, newly created professional activities, flexibility, collective ownership of goals, and reflection on the process, are explained.