Social Working Exercises in Generalist Practice

by Day, Phyllis J.; Shelly, Sandra M.; Macy, Harry J.

• ISBN13: 9780205291311
• ISBN10: 0205291317
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-11-29
• Publisher: Pearson

Summary

This book for social work practice courses provides problem-solving exercises in a workbook format. The generalist approach is emphasized through exercises at all practice levels including interpersonal, groups, organizations, communities, and policy practice. Reviewers of this revision were particularly impressed by the coverage of all levels of practice, including macro practice. The book presents a problem-solving approach, and a focus on the worker/client partnership that uses the strengths/empowerment/social justice perspective.Social Working provides easy-to-understand definitions and illustrative exercises on issues across the social work profession, so it can be used as an integration tool. Small exercises in each chapter help readers understand individual processes before they proceed to an entire problem-solving analysis. Some exercises can be completed on an individual basis; others encourage group or class participation. For social work professionals.

Table of Contents

Preface	xi
Section ONE Introduction to Social Working	1	(106)
Problem Solving and Generalist Practice	3	(24)
Purpose and Objectives	3	(1)
The Guided Problem Solving Method: Demystifying the Jargon	4	(2)
Problem Identification	6	(5)
Pick a Problem	6	(1)
Who Are the Clients?	7	(2)
Behavioral Specification	9	(1)
Partializing the Problem	10	(1)
Guided problem Solving	11	(14)
For Fun: Writing Limericks for Fun, Profit, and Better Grades	13	(6)
For Real: Learning Guided Problem Solving	19	(6)
Portfolio Building	25	(1)
Summary	26	(1)
Theoretical Perspectives for Generalist Practice	27	(25)
The Strengths/Empowerment/Social Justice Perspective	27	(15)
How We Look at Clients	28	(2)
Looking at the Strengths/Empowerment Perspective	30	(2)
The Empowerment Process	32	(1)
Action for Social Justice	32	(10)
The Ecological/Systems Perspective	42	(8)
Your Own Dyadic System	43	(3)
Walking Through Your Agency's Systems	46	(2)
Newcomers	48	(2)
Portfolio Building	50	(1)
Summary	51	(1)
The Internal Process of Problem Solving: Values and Ethics	52	(34)
The Importance of Values	52	(1)
Societal Values and Latent Functions	52	(5)
American Values	53	(1)
The Latent Functions of ``Isms''	54	(2)
Pick a Problem	56	(1)
Values Awareness	57	(3)
We Are Heterosexist Because...	57	(1)
But My Folks Told Me That...	57	(3)
Values Conflict in Social Work	60	(2)
The Other Side of Battering	60	(1)
Helping Clients Help Themselves	61	(1)
The Social Control Issue	62	(20)
Losing Power	62	(1)
Advocacy against Values	63	(3)
If I Woke Up Gay Tomorrow	66	(1)
The Teenage Pregnancy	67	(12)
Values in ``The Teenage Pregnancy''	79	(1)
Ethical Dilemas and Issues in General	79	(1)
Who Makes the Decision?	80	(2)
NASW's Code of Ethics and Empowerment Practice	82	(3)
Definitions of Core Values	82	(1)
The Dirty Home	83	(1)
Coin of Payment	84	(1)
Portfolio Building	85	(1)
Levels of Generalist Practice	86	(21)
Simultaneous Practice across Levels	86	(15)
Now What Do I Do?	88	(1)
Working across Levels	89	(1)
The Abused Spouse	90	(11)
Problem Solving and Practice Levels	101	(5)
Relevant Constituencies	101	(1)
Hoop Dreams	102	(4)
Looking at the Levels	106	(1)
Portfolio Building	106	(1)
Section TWO Micro Practice with Individuals, Groups, and Families	107	(78)
Working with the Individual Client	109	(37)
Who Can We Trust?	109	(1)
Who Can We Tell?	110	(1)
Relational Skills	111	(3)
Kicked Out by the Computer	112	(1)
The Roommate Problem	113	(1)
The Vanishing Lover	114	(1)
Cognitive Skills	114	(3)
Cognitive Exercises	116	(1)
Social Diagnosis: The Art of Social Assessment	117	(27)
Intake Interview Scenario: Introducing Don Duguid	118	(13)
Cognitive Tasks and Goals	131	(9)
Writing the Social Assessment	140	(4)
Portfolio Building	144	(1)
Looking Ahead	145	(1)
Social Work with Small Groups	146	(39)
What Is Small Group Practice?	146	(1)
Dynamics of the Treatment Group	147	(1)
Phases of the Group	148	(8)
Writting a Pre-Planning Design	149	(2)
Pre-Planning: Familities with a Future	151	(1)
Planning a Growth Group	152	(2)
Planning an Independent Living Program	154	(1)
Why Me? Mothers with HIV/AIDS: Group Formation	155	(1)
Leadership Processes	156	(12)
The Work Phase in Group Work: A Role Play---Not with My Daughter...	157	(1)
Out of the Nest: Terminating a Treatment Group	158	(1)
Role Play: A Celebration of Life	158	(1)
Facilitating the Sloan House Independent Living Program	159	(9)
Dynamics of the Task Group	168	(3)
My Own Task Groups	168	(1)
Planning a Task Group	169	(2)
Leadership in the Task Group	171	(11)
Lay Persons Developing Client Programs	171	(1)
Leadership in Conflict	172	(1)
Evaluating the Sloan House ILP	172	(10)
Portfolio Building	182	(1)
Looking Ahead	183	(2)
Section THREE Mezzo and Macro Practice Levels	185	(114)
Working in Organizations	187	(42)
The Social Work Organization	187	(5)
Commitment to Children	188	(2)
Know Your Organization	190	(2)
Organizational Structure, processes, and Culture	192	(4)
Your Organization's Structure	192	(1)
The Organization's Timeline	192	(1)
Your Agency's Culture	193	(1)
Money Is Power	194	(1)
The Hierarchical Element	194	(1)
The Organizational Theory Game Show	194	(2)
The Worker in the Organization	196	(12)
The Dying Patient	196	(10)
Establishing a Training Program on Death and Dying	206	(2)
The Power of Communication	208	(18)
The Program Proposal	210	(1)
Writing a Memo	211	(1)
Why Did She Answer ``It's Harry's Fault'' When I Asked If She Liked Blueberry Pie?	211	(13)
Classroom as Organization: The Executive Search	224	(1)
Classroom as Organization: The Audit	224	(2)
Portfolio Building	226	(1)
Moving On Up: What's Next?	227	(2)
Mobilizing Resources: The Community	229	(35)
Community Practice	229	(1)
What Is Community?	229	(5)
The Functions of Community	230	(2)
The Ecology of Public Assistance	232	(1)
Your Field Agency Network	233	(1)
Coordination of Resources	233	(1)
Needs Assessments	234	(4)
Assessing Client Needs in Your Community	235	(1)
Preparing a Needs Assessment: Why Another Program?	236	(2)
Fund Raising	238	(12)
Funding Sources	238	(2)
The Search for Funds	240	(10)
Mobilizing Community Resources	250	(6)
Identifying Mobilization Roles	250	(1)
Group Mobilization	251	(2)
Developing a Community Service: Food for the City	253	(3)
Grass Roots Organizing	256	(5)
Mobilzing for Advocacy	257	(4)
Portfolio Building	261	(1)
Looking Ahead	262	(2)
Exercises in Social Policy	264	(35)
Concepts and Definitions	264	(4)
Following the Policy Continuum	267	(1)
Identifying Problems for Policy Practice	268	(1)
Specifying the Problems	268	(1)
Identifying Policies for Policy Practice	269	(3)
Stating a Policy	270	(1)
Reformulating a Policy	271	(1)
Policies and Politics	272	(3)
Mothers' Wages	273	(2)
Why Social Welfare Policy?	275	(4)
The Context of Policy Development	276	(1)
The Policy Formulation Process	277	(2)
Policy as Practice	279	(3)
Permanent Housing	279	(3)
Social Working Synthesis	282	(15)
Serendipity, Incorporated	282	(15)
Portfolio Building	297	(1)
Concluding Remarks	298	(1)
Glossary	299