Advanced Generalist Social Work Practice

Preface and Introduction
PART ONE: ASSESSMENT
Ecological Assessment
The Art and Science of Assessment
Issues in Advanced Generalist Assessment
PART TWO: ADVANCED GENERALIST APPROACH INTERVENTIONS WITH INDIVIDUALS, COUPLES, FAMILIES AND GROUPS
A Practice Framework
The Inclusive Toolbox
Developing All the Tools for the Job
Differential Eclectic Practice
The Helping Relationship
Integrity, Use of Self, Reciprocity, Mutuality, Multidimensionality
Ethics as Love, Connection, Awareness, Non-Abusiveness and Justice
PART THREE: INTERVENTION PARADIGMS: THE FOUR FORCES OF SOCIAL WORK
Psychodynamic Paradigm
Cognitive/Behavioral/Communications Paradigm
Experiential/Humanistic/Existential Paradigm
Transpersonal Paradigm
PART FOUR: INTERVENTION PARADIGMS: PARADIGMS OF INTEGRATION
Case Management Paradigm
Biopsychosocial Paradigm
Local and Global Community Paradigm
PART FIVE: PROFESSIONAL SELF-DEVELOPMENT
Affective Development
Physical and Spiritual Development
Cognitive and Social Development
Transferences and Countertransferences and the Multidimensional Development of the Social Worker

This book describes an advanced generalist approach to direct social work practice with individuals, couples, families, and groups. Intervention paradigms that include psychodynamic, cognitive/behavioral/communications, experiential/humanistic, existential and transpersonal are presented as the four sources of social work.

David Derezotes, LCSW, PhD,  is Professor at the College of Social Work, University of Utah, where he is Director of the Bridge Training Clinic and Chair of Practice and Mental Health. He also serves on faculty in the Peace and Conflict Studies, Religious Studies, and URLEND  programs. He has a PhD in Social Welfare from UC Berkeley and a MSW from San Diego State University. He is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in Utah, where he has worked with the Indian Walk In Center and the Family Counseling Center. He currently is involved in many dialogue projects, including Bridging the Religious Divide, the Dialogue Training Group, and the White Male Privilege Group. He has published numerous textbooks and articles, including texts on Advanced Generalist Social Work Practice (2000), Revaluing Social Work: Implications of Emerging Science and Technology (2005), and Spiritually Oriented Social Work Practice (2006).