Generalist Practice

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.

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.

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.