This workbook provides a wide range of exercises, role playing activities and case scenarios to help students practice specific macro skills. The text's versatility allows it to be the primary text in a practice course or as a supplement to accompany other macro theory texts, especially GENERALIST PRACTICE WITH ORGANIZATIONS AND COMMUNITIES, 2nd by the same authors! The authors integrate macro development for field internships, as well as enhance macro skill development for social workers in the field. Specific macro practice skills are presented in a straightforward manner, and both applications to actual macro practice situations and the importance of client system strengths are emphasized throughout.

Offers exercises, role plays, activities, and case scenarios that allow students to practice social work skills used with organizations, communities, and political entities. This second edition covers skills such as fund raising and working with the media, and updates material on organizational theories. Can be used as a primary text in a course focusing on practice with organizations and communities, as a workbook accompanying other texts, as a complement to the authors' text Generalist Practice with Organizations and Communities, second edition, and as a tool for integrating macro skill development for field internships. Lacks a subject index. Kirst-Ashman is affiliated with the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. Hull is affiliated with the University of Utah.
Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Karen K. Kirst-Ashman is a professor and former chairperson in the Social Work Department at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. She has written six social work textbooks and numerous publications, articles, and reviews on social work and women's issues. She also has served as a consulting editor on many social work journals. Dr. Kirst-Ashman was a board member of the CSWE from 1998 through 2001 and has served as a member of several CSWE accreditation site teams. She is certified as a licensed clinical social worker in the state of Wisconsin and has been the recipient of the University Of Wisconsin-Whitewater Roseman Award for Excellence in Teaching. She earned her BSW degree in 1972 and MSSW degree in 1973 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and her Ph.D. in Social Work at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.Grafton Hull is professor and director of the University of Utah's BSW Program. He has over 30 years of teaching experience at the undergraduate, master's and doctorate levels. His practice experience includes work in human service agencies providing mental health, child welfare, and juvenile justice programs. He holds a bachelor's degree in sociology, a master's degree in social work, and a doctorate of education (counseling, guidance, and personnel services). Hull is the co-author of seven texts and numerous articles in social work journals. He has served on the CSWE Board of Directors, Commission on Accreditation, and as president of the Baccalaureate Program Directors (BPD). He holds a license as Independent Social Worker in the State of Wisconsin.

1. Introduction to Generalist Practice with Organizations and Communities. 2. Using Micro Skills in the Macro Environment. 3. Using Mezzo Skills with Organizations and Communities. 4. Understanding Organizations. 5. PREPARE: Decision Making For Organizational Change. 6. IMAGINE: How To Implement Macro Intervention- Changing Agency Policy. IMAGINE: Project Implementation and Program Development. 8. Focusing On Communities and Neighborhoods. 9. Macro Practice In Communities. 10. Evaluating Macro Practice. 11. Advocacy And Social Action With Populations-At-Risk. 12. Ethics and Ethical Dilemmas in Macro Practice. 13. The Social Worker in Court. 14. Developing and Managing Agency Resources. 15. Stress and Time Management. 16. Resumes, Interviewing, And Getting the Job.