Generalist Social Work Practice (okładka  miękka)

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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 (CSWE) 2015 core competencies and behaviors, and new embedded links to digital resources to promote student learning and assessment.

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