For courses in Generalist Social Work Practice A firm foundation for understanding empowerment-focused social work and implementing, evaluating, and stabilizing change. This widely popular text provides a firm foundation for understanding empowerment-based generalist social work, including the practice processes related to constructing and maintaining empowering client-worker relationships through effective communication, solution-oriented processes for conducting assessment and developing a plan of action, and ...
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For courses in Generalist Social Work Practice A firm foundation for understanding empowerment-focused social work and implementing, evaluating, and stabilizing change. This widely popular text provides a firm foundation for understanding empowerment-based generalist social work, including the practice processes related to constructing and maintaining empowering client-worker relationships through effective communication, solution-oriented processes for conducting assessment and developing a plan of action, and ideas and activities for following through with effective intervention and evaluation. It demonstrates a progressive practice approach that is grounded in social work research, reflective of social work values, sensitive to client diversity, and applicable to working with any level of client system including individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities This text gives social workers a method that fully realizes core social work values, respects client competence, and activates client resources within the context of their lives, beginning with engaging clients as partners and continuing with assessing, intervening, and evaluating from a strengths perspective. Thoroughly updated throughout, the book includes relevant information on contemporary trends in social work practice, revisions of the popular critical thinking questions consistent with the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) 2015 core competencies and behaviors, and new embedded links to digital resources to promote student learning and assessment. Extend learning beyond the classroom Pearson eText is an easy-to-use digital textbook that students can purchase on their own or you can assign for your course. It lets students read, highlight, and take notes all in one place. The mobile app lets students learn on the go, offline or online. Creating a course allows you to schedule readings, view reading analytics, and share your own notes with students, motivating them to keep reading, and keep learning. Learn more about Pearson eText.
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