Generalist Social Work Practice

A firm foundation for understanding empowerment-focused social work and implementing, evaluating, and stabilizing change.

This widely popular text provides a firm foundation for understanding empowerment-based generalist social work, including the practice processes related to constructing and maintaining empowering client-worker relationships through effective communication, solution-oriented processes for conducting assessment and developing a plan of action, and ideas and activities for following through with effective intervention and evaluation. It demonstrates a progressive practice approach that is grounded in social work research, reflective of social work values, sensitive to client diversity, and applicable to working with any level of client system including individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities

This text gives social workers a method that fully realizes core social work values, respects client competence, and activates client resources within the context of their lives, beginning with engaging clients as partners and continuing with assessing, intervening, and evaluating from a strengths perspective. Thoroughly updated throughout, the book includes relevant information on contemporary trends in social work practice, revisions of the popular critical thinking questions consistent with the Council on Social Work Education's (CSWE) current core competencies and practice behaviors, and new links to e-resources to promote student learning and assessment.

Invigorate learning with the Enhanced Pearson eText
The Enhanced Pearson eText provides a rich, interactive learning environment designed to improve student mastery of content with the following multimedia features:

• Embedded videos. Enrich the students experience with videos of real social workers in practice sharing their insights and videos that illustrate key issues and practices. (See pages 7, 238, and 277 for examples.)
• Check Your Understanding quizzes. Embedded assessments with feedback, including multiple-choice assessments at the end of each major heading, allow students to continually assess their understanding of chapter content and learning outcomes. (See pages 7, 215, and 284 for examples.)
• Chapter Review Quizzes. Assess Your Competence quizzes in multiple-choice format appear at the end of each chapter and include feedback for correct answers. (See pages 19, 235, and 298 for examples.)