Generalist Practice: A Task Centered Approach

Eleanor Reardon Tolson, William J. Reid, and Charles D. Garvin

second edition
December, 2002
Cloth, 368 pages, 1 figure
ISBN: 978-0-231-12182-8
$82.00 / £48.00

This essential text presents a "task-centered" methodology—a structured, short-term problem-solving approach—applicable across systems at five levels of practice: the individual, the family, the group, organizations, and communities. The second edition offers more information on systems theories and includes case studies and practice questions with each chapter, as well as checklists for each level of practice and exercises to help students monitor their understanding and skill development.

About the Author

Eleanor Reardon Tolson is retired from the Jane Addams College of Social Work in the University of Illinois at Chicago. William J. Reid is chair of the doctorate in social work program at the State University of New York at Albany. Charles D. Garvin is professor emeritus at the School of Social Work in the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.

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