Macro Practice Skills : A Step-by-Step Guide

Jan M Ivery

ISBN 10: 1516577167 / ISBN 13: 9781516577163

Published by Cognella Academic Publishing, 2019

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nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Designed to help future social workers cultivate the skills critical for successful practice, Macro Practice Skills: A Step-by-Step Guide helps readers develop strategic competencies that can be applied at micro, mezzo, and macro system levels. Through the development of key skills, readers learn how to understand clients within a specific social context, increasing their ability and effectiveness to intervene and assist across and within diverse client populations.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Macro Practice Skills : A Step-by-Step Guide
• Publisher: Cognella Academic Publishing
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1516577167
• ISBN 13: 9781516577163
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu

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Designed to help future social workers cultivate the skills critical for successful practice, Macro Practice Skills: A Step-by-Step Guide helps readers develop strategic competencies that can be applied at micro, mezzo, and macro system levels. Though the development of key skills, readers learn how to understand clients within a specific social context, increasing their ability and effectiveness to intervene and assist across and within diverse client populations.

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About the Author

Jan M. Ivery holds a Ph.D. from Virginia Commonwealth University and M.S.W. from the University of Pittsburgh. She is an associate professor of social work at Georgia State University. Her teaching and research has focused on organizational and community capacity for improved service delivery through community collaboration. Dr. Ivery has published peer-reviewed articles on organizational ecology, social capital, and naturally occurring retirement communities in journals such as the Administration of Social Work (now Human Service Organizations: Management, Leadership, & Governance, Journal of Gerontological Social Work, and Human Behavior and the Social Environment.