Generalist Social Work Practice: An Empowering Approach, 8th edition

Invigorate learning with the Enhanced Pearson eTextThe Enhanced Pearson eText provides a rich, interactive learning environment designed to improve student mastery of content with the following multimedia features:

• Embedded videos. Enrich the students’ experience with videos of real social workers in practice sharing their insights and videos that illustrate key issues and practices. (See pages 7, 238, and 277 for examples.)

• Check Your Understanding quizzes. Embedded assessments with feedback, including multiple-choice assessments at the end of each major heading, allow students to continually assess their understanding of chapter content and learning outcomes. (See pages 7, 215, and 284 for examples.)

• Chapter Review Quizzes. Assess Your Competence quizzes in multiple-choice format appear at the end of each chapter and include feedback for correct answers. (See pages 19, 235, and 298 for examples.)

Instructors, visit pearsonhighered.com/etextbooks/ted to register for your digital examination copy. Students, register for or purchase your eText at pearsonhighered.com/etextbooks/ted.

Additional text benefits include:

• Get a firm foundation and specific processes and skills for generalist social work practice that incorporate empowerment-based social work practice into a generalist framework:
  • Bridges the micro-macro dichotomy in social work practice and integrates political and personal aspects to help students recognize macro influences even when working at the micro level.
  • Emphasizes social work as a social justice and human rights profession, showing students both the historic and contemporary focus of social work.
  • Features the strengths perspective as a key element of empowerment social work practice, orienting students to clients’ capacities and resources (throughout the text, see specific emphasis in Chapters 4 and 9).
  • NEW! Better prepares students for present day generalist social work practice by offering new material about biological influences on behavior, trauma theory, trauma-informed practice, and evidence-based practice.
  • NEW! A new full-length case example demonstrates how a generalist social worker applies key theoretical perspectives to working with a veteran reintegrating into civilian life after combat (Ch. 2).
  • NEW! The National Association of Social Work (NASW) strategies for professional action through 2020 and the revisions to material based on current NASW policy statements are included as well as the current International Federation of Social Workers (IFSW) definition of social work (Ch. 1 for NASW and IFSW definitions. NASW policy statements incorporated throughout).
• Be prepared for competency-based social work practice through the book’s infusion of CSWE competencies and behaviors in every chapter:
  • NEW! Ensures extensive coverage of required outcomes identified by CSWE in 2015, revising critical thinking questions to target the current core competencies and associated behaviors.
  • Aligns with the 2015 Educational Policy and Accreditation Standards (EPAS). Each chapter focuses on teaching the knowledge, values, and skills reflective of the core competencies and correlated behaviors described in 2015 EPAS.
• See how to work with diverse client populations in a variety of settings, and with clients coming to the practice with a variety of backgrounds and issues:
• Prepares students for culturally responsive social work practice (Ch. 3 and integrated throughout).
• Teaches skills for responding to clients in a supportive, client-centered, and culturally competent way (introduced in Ch. 7 and integrated throughout).
• Guides students in understanding client resistance as a natural and useful response to social work intervention.
• Prepares students to appreciate the cultural resources that clients bring by acknowledging that client cultural identities are sources of strengths and resources to fuel positive change (Ch. 9).
• Infuses a trauma-informed perspective to guide social workers’ responses to trauma survivors in ways that show they understand what is going on, while building on survivorship strengths (introduced in Ch. 2 and integrated throughout).
• Keep up to date on information pertinent to the field:
• Includes current demographic information, data, and research material.
• Features updated bibliographic references integrated into the reference list of over 700 citations, and fine tuning of the organization of material in many chapters to improve readability throughout.
• Instructors get additional support in a highly useful Instructor’s Manual including such invaluable help as:
• Comprehensive resources for each chapter: an overview, students learning outcomes, detailed outline, discussion questions, in-class activities, out-of-class assignments, and multiple choice and short answer essay test items.
• A full-length generalist-focused case study coordinated with each of the four parts of the book.
• Tables to encapsulate the social service agencies and social workers in the fictitious Northside Community examples featured throughout the text.

Invigorate learning with the Enhanced Pearson eText
The Enhanced Pearson eText provides a rich, interactive learning environment designed to improve student mastery of content with the following multimedia features:

• Embedded videos. Enrich the students’ experience with videos of real social workers in practice sharing their insights and videos that illustrate key issues and practices. (See pages 7, 238, and 277 for examples.)
• Check Your Understanding quizzes. Embedded assessments with feedback, including multiple-choice assessments at the end of each major heading, allow students to continually assess their understanding of chapter content and learning outcomes. (See pages 7, 215, and 284 for examples.)
• Chapter Review Quizzes. Assess Your Competence quizzes in multiple-choice format appear at the end of each chapter and include feedback for correct answers. (See pages 19, 235, and 298 for examples.)

Instructors, visit pearsonhighered.com/etextbooks/ted to register for your digital examination copy. Students, register for or purchase your eText at pearsonhighered.com/etextbooks/ted.

Key content changes include:

• Better prepares students for present day generalist social work practice by offering new material about biological influences on behavior, trauma theory, trauma-informed practice, and evidence-based practice.
• NEW! A new full-length case example demonstrates how a generalist social worker applies key theoretical perspectives to working with a veteran reintegrating into civilian life after combat (Ch. 2).
• NEW! The National Association of Social Work (NASW) strategies for professional action through 2020 and the revisions to material based on current NASW policy statements are included as well as the current International Federation of Social Workers (IFSW) definition of social work (Ch. 1 for NASW and IFSW definitions. NASW policy statements incorporated throughout).
• NEW! Ensures extensive coverage of required outcomes identified by CSWE in 2015, revising critical thinking questions to target the current core competencies and associated behaviors.

• Keep up to date on information pertinent to the field. Included are current demographic information, data, and research material, updated bibliographic references integrated into the reference list of over 700 citations, and fine tuning of the organization of material in many chapters to improve readability throughout.