Generalist Social Work Practice

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• 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.)

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Key content changes include:

• Better prepares students for present day generalist social work practice by offering new material about biological influences on behavior, trauma theory, trauma-informed practice, and evidence-based practice.
• NEW! A new full-length case example demonstrates how a generalist social worker applies key theoretical perspectives to working with a veteran reintegrating into civilian life after combat (Ch. 2).
• NEW! The National Association of Social Work (NASW) strategies for professional action through 2020 and the revisions to material based on current NASW policy statements are included as well as the current International Federation of Social Workers (IFSW) definition of social work (Ch. 1 for NASW and IFSW definitions. NASW policy statements incorporated throughout).
• NEW! Ensures extensive coverage of required outcomes identified by CSWE in 2015, revising critical thinking questions to target the current core competencies and associated behaviors.

• Keep up to date on information pertinent to the field. Included are current demographic information, data, and research material, updated bibliographic references integrated into the reference list of over 700 citations, and fine tuning of the organization of material in many chapters to improve readability throughout.

Note: This is the bound book only and does not include access to the Enhanced Pearson eText. To order the Enhanced Pearson eText packaged with a bound book, use ISBN 0134403347.

 

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

 

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Karla Krogsrud Miley, A.M., ACSW, retired in 2009 from her appointment as professor and Chair of the Department of Social, Behavioral, and Educational Studies at Black Hawk College in Moline, Illinois, where she taught life span psychology, introductory psychology, and introductory social work. She continues to teach human behavior theory as an adjunct professor for the St. Ambrose University MSW program in Davenport, Iowa. A graduate of the University of Chicago, School of Social Service Administration, and a licensed social worker in Illinois, Miley has experience in a variety of fields of practice, including school social work and aging services. She has extensive experience in facilitating workshops and conference sessions on generalist social work and empowerment and social justice. She has served on the editorial board of Social Work Education and on the Social Work Advisory Board for Pearson Education.  Professor Miley is a coauthor of Social Work: An Empowering Profession (8th edition), co-editor of Pathways to Power: Reading in Contextual Social Work Practice, and works collaboratively with Michael O’Melia and Brenda DuBois in writing Generalist Social Work Practice: An Empowering Approach (8th edition, forthcoming).

 

Michael O’Melia is a retired Associate Professor in the St. Ambrose University MSW Program, Davenport, Iowa. He specialized in teaching clinical social work with expertise in generalist, collaborative, and anti-oppressive methods. O’Melia is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in Illinois, working for over forty years with individuals, couples, families and small groups in child welfare, delinquency prevention, family therapy, and school-based practice settings. In addition to co-authoring Generalist Social Work Practice: An Empowering Approach, O’Melia is co-editor of Pathways to Power: Reading in Contextual Social Work Practice. Functioning as a community trainer and program consultant, O’Melia focuses on developing culturally competent practices, working with resistant and mandated clients, and implementing strength-based clinical strategies. He has been a member of the Social Work Advisory Board for Pearson Education, serves on the Editorial Advisory Board of the Rumanian Social Work Review, and contributes as a reviewer to the Journal of Progressive Human Services.

 

Brenda DuBois, PhD, MSW, professor emerita, was the director of the graduate School of Social work at St. Ambrose University, Davenport, Iowa.  A graduate of the University of Iowa (social work) and Illinois State University (Higher Education Administration), Dr. DuBois has been a social work educator for 35 years, in both BSW and MSW programs, with teaching specialties in generalist practice, social welfare history and policy, social justice, empowerment, and ethics. She has served on several community boards and service delivery planning groups. Additionally, as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in Illinois she has extensive experience in facilitating workshops, staff development training, and conference sessions on generalist social work, empowerment social work, social justice, and social work ethics. Dr. DuBois is a coauthor with Karla Miley of Social Work: An Empowering Profession (8^th edition) and works collaboratively with Karla Miley and Michael O’Melia in writing Generalist Social Work Practice: An Empowering Approach (8^th edition, forthcoming).

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.)

Instructors, visit pearsonhighered.com/etextbooks/ted to register for your digital examination copy. Students, register for or purchase your eText at pearsonhighered.com/etextbooks/ted.

 

Additional text benefits include:

• Get a firm foundation and specific processes and skills for generalist social work practice that incorporate empowerment-based social work practice into a generalist framework:
  • Bridges the micro-macro dichotomy in social work practice and integrates political and personal aspects to help students recognize macro influences even when working at the micro level.
  • Emphasizes social work as a social justice and human rights profession, showing students both the historic and contemporary focus of social work.
  • Features the strengths perspective as a key element of empowerment social work practice, orienting students to clients’ capacities and resources (throughout the text, see specific emphasis in Chapters 4 and 9).
  • NEW! Better prepares students for present day generalist social work practice by offering new material about biological influences on behavior, trauma theory, trauma-informed practice, and evidence-based practice.
  • NEW! A new full-length case example demonstrates how a generalist social worker applies key theoretical perspectives to working with a veteran reintegrating into civilian life after combat (Ch. 2).
  • NEW! The National Association of Social Work (NASW) strategies for professional action through 2020 and the revisions to material based on current NASW policy statements are included as well as the current International Federation of Social Workers (IFSW) definition of social work (Ch. 1 for NASW and IFSW definitions. NASW policy statements incorporated throughout).
• Be prepared for competency-based social work practice through the book’s infusion of CSWE competencies and behaviors in every chapter:
  • NEW! Ensures extensive coverage of required outcomes identified by CSWE in 2015, revising critical thinking questions to target the current core competencies and associated behaviors.
  • Aligns with the 2015 Educational Policy and Accreditation Standards (EPAS). Each chapter focuses on teaching the knowledge, values, and skills reflective of the core competencies and correlated behaviors described in 2015 EPAS.
• S ee how to work with diverse client populations in a variety of settings, and with clients coming to the practice with a variety of backgrounds and issues:
• Prepares students for culturally responsive social work practice (Ch. 3 and integrated throughout).
• Teaches skills for responding to clients in a supportive, client-centered, and culturally competent way (introduced in Ch. 7 and integrated throughout).
• Guides students in understanding client resistance as a natural and useful response to social work intervention.
• Prepares students to appreciate the cultural resources that clients bring by acknowledging that client cultural identities are sources of strengths and resources to fuel positive change (Ch. 9).
• Infuses a trauma-informed perspective to guide social workers’ responses to trauma survivors in ways that show they understand what is going on, while building on survivorship strengths (introduced in Ch. 2 and integrated throughout).
• Keep up to date on information pertinent to the field:
• Includes current demographic information, data, and research material.
• Features updated bibliographic references integrated into the reference list of over 700 citations, and fine tuning of the organization of material in many chapters to improve readability throughout.
• Instructors get additional support in a highly useful Instructor’s Manual including such invaluable help as:
• Comprehensive resources for each chapter: an overview, students learning outcomes, detailed outline, discussion questions, in-class activities, out-of-class assignments, and multiple choice and short answer essay test items.
• A full-length generalist-focused case study coordinated with each of the four parts of the book.
• Tables to encapsulate the social service agencies and social workers in the fictitious Northside Community examples featured throughout the text.

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.)

Brief Table of Contents

PART I: SOCIAL WORK PRACTICE PERSPECTIVES

1. Generalist Social Work Practice

2. Human System Perspectives

3. Values and Multicultural Competence

4. Strengths and Empowerment

5. An Empowering Approach to Generalist Practice

PART II: ENGAGEMENT: THE DIALOGUE PHASE

6. Engagement: Forming Partnerships
7. Engagement: Articulating Situations

8. Engagement: Defining Directions

 

PART III: ASSESSMENT: THE DISCOVERY PHASE

9. Assessment: Identifying Strengths

10. Assessment: Assessing Resource Capabilities
11. Assessment: Framing Solutions

 

PART IV: INTERVENTION AND EVALUATION: THE DEVELOPMENT PHASE

12. Intervention: Activating Resources

13. Intervention: Creating Alliances

14. Intervention: Expanding Opportunities

15. Evaluation: Recognizing Success

16. Intervention: Integrating Gains

 

Detailed Table of Contents

Note: This is the bound book only and does not include access to the Enhanced Pearson eText. To order the Enhanced Pearson eText packaged with a bound book, use ISBN 0134403347.

 

A firm foundation for understanding empowerment-focused social work, engaging clients, conducting solution-oriented assessment, and implementing, evaluating, and stabilizing change.

 

This widely popular resource provides a firm foundation for understanding empowerment-focused social work, engaging clients, conducting solution-oriented assessment, and implementing, evaluating, and stabilizing change. 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.

 

General Social Work Practice gives readers 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 up to date, 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 Educations’ (CSWE) current core competencies and practice behaviors, and new links to e-resources to promote student learning and assessment. The Enhanced Pearson eText features embedded videos and assessments.

 

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