Description

Features

• Takes a generalist, empowerment-oriented approach, including all system levels–individual, family, group, organization and community.
• Incorporates the ecosystems approach to consider human behavior within an ecological context; uses the empowerment or strengths perspective to help students learn to identify and utilize client strengths in their practice.
• Sensitizes students to human diversity and ways to increase cultural competence in practice.
• The integration of material on practice, human behavior, policy, and research makes this text a unifying piece of any social work curriculum and a good fit for the new CSWE Educational Policy and Accreditation Standards.
• The comprehensive instructor's manual and test bank is written by the authors, and completely outlines the book and offers activities, exercises, and handouts for each chapter.
• Boxed material in each chapter highlights contemporary thinking about ethics and values in empowerment practice. New boxes in each chapter highlight the linkages among practice, policy, and research.
• Includes material on spirituality, cultural responsiveness, power and privilege, environmental change, oppression, evidence-based practice, and action research.
• Student workbook (available to be packaged with the text) includes key terms, activities and exercises, and case study material.

New To This Edition

• Reflects an increasing emphasis on politicized and contextual social work and the dual clinical-political focus of empowerment practice.
• Boxed material features the practice-policy-research connections related to central chapter themes, including  content on social work image, client resiliency, cultural competence, research on empowerment, the social work action agenda, the client-worker relationship, immigrants and refugees, disaster response, assessment, case management, service delivery policy, aging issues, service user involvement, the Campbell Collaborative, and end of life issues.
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Table of Contents

Most chapters conclude with “Looking Forward.”

I. SOCIAL WORK PRACTICE PERSPECTIVES.

1. Generalist Social Work Practice.

Social Work Values and Purpose.

Generalist Social Work.

Social Work Functions and Roles.

2. The Ecosystems Perspective.

The Knowledge Base of Generalist Practice.

Key Perspectives for Empowering Practice.

The Ecosystems Perspective.

Human Systems.

Ecosystems: A Conceptual Framework for Practice.

3. Values and Multicultural Competence.

Frames of Reference.

Professional Values and Practice Principles.

Personal Values and Resources.

Multicultural Competence.

A Generalist View of Cultural Competence.

4. Strengths and Empowerment.

Strengths Perspective.

Empowerment.

Empowerment-Based Practice.

5. An Empowering Approach to Generalist Practice.

Elements of an Empowering Generalist Approach.

Phases and Processes of Empowering Practice.

Processes in Action: Practice Examples.

Maintaining Flexibility in Application.

II. THE DIALOGUE PHASE: BUILDING RELATIONSHIPS AND DESCRIBING SITUATIONS.

6. Forming Partnerships.

Collaboration and Partnership.

Making Initial Contacts.

Qualities of Professional Partnerships.

Constructing Empowering Relationships.

Respecting Confidentiality.

7. Articulating Situations.

Empowering Dialogue.

Proactive Responding.

Exchanging Information.

Assessing the Client's Perspective.

Responding to Thoughts.

Responding to Feelings.

Special Issues in Responding.

Responding to Larger Client Systems.

8. Defining Directions.

Transforming Challenges into Directions.

Considering Client Motivation.

Collaborating with Clients Who Resist.

Cooperating with Mandated Clients.

Taking Priority Actions.

III. THE DISCOVERY PHASE: ASSESSING RESOURCES AND PLANNING CHANGE.

9. Identifying Strengths.

Infusing a Strengths Perspective.

Highlighting Strengths in General Functioning.

Solution-Focused Dialogue.

Recognizing Cultural Strengths.

Ethnic Group Strengths.

Strengths in Cultural Group Memberships.

Uncovering Strengths in Adversity.

10. Assessing Resource Capabilities.

Exploring Resource Systems.

Applying Theoretical Frameworks.

Organizing Assessment: Applying Ecosystemic Questions.

Using Assessment Tools.

Adding Viewpoints.

Assessing through Observation.

Record-Keeping.

11. Framing Solutions.

Collaborative Planning Processes.

Goals and Objectives.

Constructing Action Plans.

Contracting.

IV. THE DEVELOPMENT PHASE: IMPLEMENTING, EVALUATING, AND STABILIZING CHANGE.

12. Activating Resources.

Applying Generalist Intervention Skills.

Maintaining Progress in the Action Plan.

Developing Power.

Changing Perspectives.

Managing Resources.

Educating.

13. Creating Alliances.

The Power of Alliances.

Developing Alliances through Groups.

Strengthening Natural Support Alliances.

Case Management: Client-Service Alliances.

Organizational Alliances for Service Delivery.

Professional Support Networks.

14. Expanding Opportunities.

Opportunities: Keys to Empowerment.

Resource Expansion.

Community Change.

Policy Development.

Social Activism and Social Advocacy.

Legislative Advocacy.

Resources for Professionals.

15. Recognizing Success.

Social Work Evaluation and Research.

Practice Evaluation.

Research.

Single-System Designs.

Action Research.

16. Integrating Gains.

Social Work Endings.

Completing Contracts.

Closing with Referral.

Responding to Clients' Discontinuation of Services.

When Clients Die.

Resolving Relationships with Larger Systems.

Endings Are Beginnings.

Epilogue.

Glossary.

Appendix A: NASW Code of Ethics.

References.

Author Index.

Subject Index.

Courses

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Next Edition(s)

• Generalist Social Work Practice: An Empowering Approach, 7/E
  Miley, O'Melia & DuBois
  ©2013  |  Pearson  |  Paper; 528 pp  |  Instock
  ISBN-10: 0205036511  |  ISBN-13: 9780205036516
  Suggested retail price: $120.33  Buy from myPearsonStoreNet price: $90.25  (What's this?)Brief Description  | 

  

  An empowerment-based method of social work which integrates core themes of the profession.

   

  This text is part of the Connecting Core Competencies Series.

   

  Generalist Social Work Practice, 7th edition, fully integrates core social work themes of collaboration, the strengths perspective, values and ethics, social justice and human rights, evidence-based practice, cultural competence, and policy practice.

   

  This text offers a progressive practice approach grounded in social work research, reflective of social work values, sensitive to client diversity, and applicable to work with any level of client system including individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities.  Beginning with engaging clients as partners and continuing with assessing, intervening, and evaluating from a strengths perspective, this approach offers social workers a method that fully realizes core social work values, respects client competence, and activates client resources within the context of their lives.

   

  All parts of the practice process are described in detail, connected to social work theory, illustrated with case examples, and supported with evidence from social work research. Each chapter focuses on teaching the knowledge, values, and skills reflective of the core competencies and correlated practice behaviors as described in the 2008 Educational Policy and Accreditation Standards (EPAS). 

   

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  • Improve Critical Thinking – Teaches students specific strategies to identify and use client strengths in their practice.
  • Engage Students – Offers numerous case examples to apply the empowerment method to all levels of social work, with diverse clients and situations, and across fields of practice.
  • Explore Current Issues – Includes new practice research findings and updates to demographics to ensure currency.
  • Apply CSWE Core Competencies – The text integrates the 2008 CSWE EPAS, with critical thinking questions and practice tests to assess student understanding and development of competency.
  • Support Instructors – An Instructor’s Manual and Test Bank, Computerized Test Bank (MyTest), BlackBoard Test Item File, MySearchLab with Pearson eText, and PowerPoint presentations are included in the outstanding supplements package.

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• Generalist Social Work Practice: An Empowering Approach, 7/E
  Miley, O'Melia & DuBois
  ©2013  |  Pearson  |  Paper; 528 pp  |  Instock
  ISBN-10: 0205036511  |  ISBN-13: 9780205036516
  Suggested retail price: $120.33  Buy from myPearsonStoreNet price: $90.25  (What's this?)Brief Description  | 

  

  An empowerment-based method of social work which integrates core themes of the profession.

   

  This text is part of the Connecting Core Competencies Series.

   

  Generalist Social Work Practice, 7th edition, fully integrates core social work themes of collaboration, the strengths perspective, values and ethics, social justice and human rights, evidence-based practice, cultural competence, and policy practice.

   

  This text offers a progressive practice approach grounded in social work research, reflective of social work values, sensitive to client diversity, and applicable to work with any level of client system including individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities.  Beginning with engaging clients as partners and continuing with assessing, intervening, and evaluating from a strengths perspective, this approach offers social workers a method that fully realizes core social work values, respects client competence, and activates client resources within the context of their lives.

   

  All parts of the practice process are described in detail, connected to social work theory, illustrated with case examples, and supported with evidence from social work research. Each chapter focuses on teaching the knowledge, values, and skills reflective of the core competencies and correlated practice behaviors as described in the 2008 Educational Policy and Accreditation Standards (EPAS). 

   

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  • Improve Critical Thinking – Teaches students specific strategies to identify and use client strengths in their practice.
  • Engage Students – Offers numerous case examples to apply the empowerment method to all levels of social work, with diverse clients and situations, and across fields of practice.
  • Explore Current Issues – Includes new practice research findings and updates to demographics to ensure currency.
  • Apply CSWE Core Competencies – The text integrates the 2008 CSWE EPAS, with critical thinking questions and practice tests to assess student understanding and development of competency.
  • Support Instructors – An Instructor’s Manual and Test Bank, Computerized Test Bank (MyTest), BlackBoard Test Item File, MySearchLab with Pearson eText, and PowerPoint presentations are included in the outstanding supplements package.

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• Generalist Social Work Practice: An Empowering Approach (Updated Edition), 6/E
  Miley, O'Melia & DuBois
  ©2011  |  Pearson  |  Paper; 528 pp  |  Instock
  ISBN-10: 0205789811  |  ISBN-13: 9780205789818
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  With its focus on empowerment and extensive coverage of ethics and values, Generalist Social Work Practice, 6/e,  provides excellent coverage of:  evidence-based practice, policy practice, social justice and human rights, end-of-life-care, diversity and special population groups, including immigrants, veterans, and older adults.

  
  Each chapter reflects and integrates the core competencies in the 2008 Educational Policy and Accreditation Standards (EPAS) set by the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE).  End-of-chapter assessment reinforces this integration, and MySocialWorkLab.com activities support the mastery of CSWE's core competencies.
  

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Overview:

The fifth edition of this innovative text continues to emphasize a generalist, empowerment-oriented approach, along with practice strategies and techniques for working toward individual client and social change.

Highlights of the Fifth Edition:

·        The integration of material on practice, human behavior, policy, and research makes this text a unifying piece of any social work curriculum and a good fit for the new CSWE Educational Policy and Accreditation Standards

·        New boxes in each chapter highlight the connection between practice, policy, and research.

·        Sensitizes students to human diversity and ways to increase cultural competence in practice.

·        The comprehensive instructor's manual and test bank, written by the authors, completely outlines the book and offers activities, exercises, and handouts for each chapter.

What Reviewers Are Saying:

“The major strengths of this text include the following: (1) a generalist framework that reflects the multi-faceted nature of contemporary social work practice; (2) an empowerment-oriented approach that views clients as partners in the helping process; (3) a readable style that is accessible to a broad audience; (4) fundamental concepts that are applicable to a wide range of social work practice environments.”

--Andrew Scharlach, University of California–Berkeley

“Overall, I consider this to be an excellent text. The best one I have yet found for use in teaching generalist practice concepts, process, and methods….”

--Cynthia Bishop, Meredith College

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