The Life Model of Social Work Practice: Advances in Theory and Practice (Third Edition)

Alex Gitterman and Carel B. Germain

Third Edition
May, 2008
Cloth, 632 pages, 40 tables, 7 line drawings
ISBN: 978-0-231-13998-4
$70.00 / £41.00

"What a thrill it is to read someone who understands social work this deeply. Alex Gitterman has set his sights on nothing less than defining social work practice in its broadest sense and at the same time providing details that allow us to understand our work with specificity. He has truly engaged the enormous quantity of knowledge that has emerged since the publication of the last edition, and his ability to incorporate all of this in one book is masterful. He has captured social work at a time in which our profession is increasingly difficult and has found a way to help us reason through the 'wicked problems' we face in an uncaring and frequently oppressive society. All I can say is bravo." — Jacqueline Mondros, dean, Hunter College School of Social Work

"In this highly influential social work practice text, Alex Gitterman and the late Carel B. Germain present a unique social work approach to practice with individuals, families, groups, and communities that incorporates an ecological, personal, and environmental perspective. Gitterman and Germain are seminal thinkers on this topic, and their extremely comprehensive, scholarly text is a refreshing break from many of the social work practice texts that are available. Its scholarship is first-rate." — Meredith Hanson, Fordham University Graduate School of Social Service

Related Subjects

• Social Work

About the Author

Alex Gitterman is Zachs professor and director of the doctoral program at the University of Connecticut School of Social Work. He is the coeditor of Mutual Aid, Vulnerable and Resilient Populations, and the Life Cycle, Third Edition, and author of The Handbook of Social Work Practice with Vulnerable and Resilient Populations, Second Edition, which won the Robert Wood Johnson Award for excellence in end of life content. Currently, Professor Gitterman serves on the board of the Association for the Advancement of Social Work with Groups and as a commissioner on the Commission of Education and Curriculum Innovation and chair for the group work symposia of the Council on Social Work Education. The late Carel B. Germain was emerita professor of social work at the University of Connecticut. She is the author of Human Behavior in the Social Environment and editor of Social Work Practice: People and Environments.

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