Advanced Generalist Social Work Practice

This book introduces a more inclusive paradigm of social work practice based on an integration of new theories and more traditional models of social work theory and practice. The majority of texts in social work direct practice focus on a specific at risk population (such as abused children) or on a specific methodology of practice. David Derezotess new philosophy of practice is developed using theory and research drawn from the Ecological paradigm Postmodernism and Revisionist psychology. Intervention paradigms that include psychodynamic cognitive/behavioral/communications experiential/humanistic existential and transpersonal are presented as the four sources of social work. The book touches on paradigms of intervention and discusses advanced generalist approach interventions with individuals couples families and groups. Because of its thorough systematic and well-referenced coverage of key issues of direct practice instructors will find the book useful as a required or supplemental text for direct practice courses.