Modelo Generalista

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Generalist Practice with Organizations and Communities, Fourth Edition Karen K. Kirst-Ashman and Grafton H. Hull, Jr. Acquisitions Editor: Seth Dobrin Assistant Editor: Allison Bowie Editorial Assistant: Diane Mars Technology Project Manager: Andrew Keay Senior Marketing Manager: Trent Whatcott Marketing Assistant: Ting Jian YapSenior Marketing Communications Manager: Tami Strang Project Manager, Editorial Production: Christy Krueger Creative Director: Rob Hugel Senior Art Director: Caryl Gorska Print Buyer: Linda Hsu Permissions Editor: Robert Kauser Production Service: Jennifer Bonnar, Lachina Publishing Services Photo Researcher: Don Schlotman Copy Editor: Lisa Koehler Cover Designer: Roger Knox Cover Image: Stephan Daigle/ Getty Images Compositor: Lachina Publishing Services

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What is generalist practice anyway? Why do you need to know what generalist practice is? Social work is social work,isn’t it? Why do you need to understand organizations and communities if you will be working primarily with individual clients and families?

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Aren’t supervisors and administrators supposed to take care of all those agency and policy matters? What is agency life like?

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Licensed to: iChapters User 2 CHAPTER ONE Introduction to Generalist Practice with Organizations and Communities Consider another example. Suppose you discover that many of your clients, suffering from severe poverty, have little money to buy their children food, let alone gifts, during the upcoming holiday season. You feel this is sad and unfair. Getting additionalresources for clients may have nothing to do with your job description. However, you feel that pursuing such a goal would mean very much to them. How might you go about raising the funds or getting the resources? Whom would you go to for help? What skills might be useful in this project? How might you establish a plan for accomplishing this goal? Later chapters will propose approaches to answer these...