Overview
This book offers a new way for teaching social work practice by using a familiar framework (social problems) and incorporating the various roles that social workers assume (e.g., advocate, broker, mediator). This approach enables the reader to really practice generalist social work in an integrative way. (This book follows the guidelines of the Council on Social Work Education.).
Synopsis
Providing a much-needed framework for directing social work practice into the dynamics of social problems, this scholarly text shows students how to approach generalist practice in an integrative way. The authors suggest social problems (i.e., school drop-outs) as the focus for thinking about generalist practice and utilize a deviance and labeling a perspective of social problems to provide a context for looking at labeling, victimization, and disempowerment of the client population. The six professional roles of conferee, enabler, broker, advocate, mediator, and guardian are presented as having applicability across multi-level client systems, from victim-based rehabilitation and education to creation of needed service delivery systems and mobilizing social welfare policies. Using an empowerment framework as a principle around which to organize intervention, the authors define and apply social work roles in generalist practice and include strategic interventive approaches within those roles.
Booknews
Offers a new approach to teaching social work practice that uses the familiar framework of social problems and incorporates the various roles that social workers assume, such as advocate, broker, and mediator. The goal is to prepare the worker to intervene effectively across multilevel client systems, from victim-based rehabilitation and education, to creating service delivery systems and the mobilizing social welfare policies. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)