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"A comprehensive and accessible text for all students. An excellent overview of the key elements students will address in macro practice."-Walt Paquin, Bluffton University
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"A very thorough text on generalist practice with organizations and communities that ensures students are well-grounded in ethics, values, and core content essential to macro practice."-John Hodges, University of North Alabama
About the Author
Karen K. Kirst-Ashman is Professor Emerita and former chairperson in the Social Work Department at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, where she taught for 28 years. She has written six social work textbooks in multiple editions 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 to 2001 and has served as a CSWE accreditation site visitor on various occasions. 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 a full professor at the University of Utah College of Social Work. He founded and directed the College's BSW Program. He has 38 years of experience teaching at BSW, MSW, and Ph.D. levels. His practice experience includes work in human service agencies providing mental health, child welfare, and juvenile justice programs. He holds a BS in sociology, an MSW, and a doctorate in 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 Nominations Committee; and as a President of the Association of Baccalaureate Social Work Program Directors (BPD), from which he received the Significant Lifetime Achievement Award in 2005. His biography is listed in WHO'S WHO IN AMERICA.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction to Generalist Practice with Organizations and Communities. 2. Using Micro Skills with Organizations and Communities. 3. Group Skills for Organizational and Community Change. 4. Understanding Organizations. 5. Decision Making for Organizational Change. 6. Implementing Macro Interventions: Agency Policy, Projects, and Programs. 7. Understanding Neighborhoods and Communities. 8. Macro Practice in Communities. 9. Evaluating Macro Practice. 10. Advocacy and Social Action with Populations-At-Risk. 11. Ethics and Ethical Dilemmas in Practice with Organizations and Communities. 12. Using Supervision. 13. Developing and Managing Agency Resources. 14. Stress and Time Management.