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Generalist Practice: A Task Centered Approach

Name: Generalist Practice: A Task Centered Approach
Author: Eleanor Reardon Tolson
ISBN: 9780231507523

by Eleanor Reardon Tolson, William J. Reid, Charles D. Garvin

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Overview

This essential text presents a "task-centered" methodology—a structured, short-term problem-solving approach—applicable across systems at five levels of practice: the individual, the family, the group, organizations, and communities. The second edition offers more information on systems theories and includes case studies and practice questions with each chapter, as well as checklists for each level of practice and exercises to help students monitor their understanding and skill development.

About the Author, Eleanor Reardon Tolson

Eleanor Reardon Tolson is retired from the Jane Addams College of Social Work in the University of Illinois at Chicago. William J. Reid is chair of the doctorate in social work program at the State University of New York at Albany. Charles D. Garvin is professor emeritus at the School of Social Work in the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.

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Editorials

Bradford W. Sheafor

Fills a gap in the social work literature. . . . In this thorough and carefully structured book, Tolson, Reid, and Garvin not only demonstrate how the task-centered approach can be applied to problem solving with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities, but also identify the adaptions that must be made to apply the task-centered model at each level.

Booknews

Establishes a methodology for a generalist medical practice by applying a structured, short-term, problem-solving approach that can be used with many different theoretical orientations to deal with individual, families, groups, organizations, and communities. Intended for practice classes for undergraduate and entry-level graduate students. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)