Generalist Social Work Practice
Questions and Answers.
generalist social work -
\provides an integrated and multileveled approach for meeting the purposes of social
work and practitioners acknowledge the interplay of personal and collective issues,
prompting them to work with a variety of human systems
microlevel -
\focuses on work with people individually, in families, or in small groups to foster change
within personal functioning, in social relationships, and in the way people interact with
social and institutional resources
mezzolevel -
\creates changes in task groups, teams, organizations, and the network of service
delivery
macrolevel -
\address social problems in community, institutional and societal systems
professional-level -
\project a professional identity, define professional relationships with social work and
interdisciplinary colleagues, reorient priorities within the social work profession, and
reorganize the system of service delivery
social policy -
\laws and rules that determine how a society distributes its resources among its
members
research -
\method of systematic investigation or experimentation to enrich theory and refine
practice applications
consultancy -
\social work function through which workers and clients at any system level confer and
deliberate together to develop plans for change and seek solutions for challenges to
social functioning
resource management -
\social work function through which social workers foster connections with resources
that clients already use to some extent, facilitate connections with other resources, and
develop resources that are not currently available
Questions and Answers.
generalist social work -
\provides an integrated and multileveled approach for meeting the purposes of social
work and practitioners acknowledge the interplay of personal and collective issues,
prompting them to work with a variety of human systems
microlevel -
\focuses on work with people individually, in families, or in small groups to foster change
within personal functioning, in social relationships, and in the way people interact with
social and institutional resources
mezzolevel -
\creates changes in task groups, teams, organizations, and the network of service
delivery
macrolevel -
\address social problems in community, institutional and societal systems
professional-level -
\project a professional identity, define professional relationships with social work and
interdisciplinary colleagues, reorient priorities within the social work profession, and
reorganize the system of service delivery
social policy -
\laws and rules that determine how a society distributes its resources among its
members
research -
\method of systematic investigation or experimentation to enrich theory and refine
practice applications
consultancy -
\social work function through which workers and clients at any system level confer and
deliberate together to develop plans for change and seek solutions for challenges to
social functioning
resource management -
\social work function through which social workers foster connections with resources
that clients already use to some extent, facilitate connections with other resources, and
develop resources that are not currently available
