Generalist Social Work Practice: An Empowering Approach 5th Ed - hardcover

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" [ Insert MyHelpingLab Advertisement ]