Social Work Macro Practice

by F. Ellen Netting, Peter M. Kettner, Steven L. McMurtry

Explores working with organizations and communities with a unique macro practice model focusing on making changes within diverse communities and organizations.

 

This book is part of the Connecting Core Competencies Series. This series helps students understand and master CSWE’s core competencies with a variety of pedagogy highlighted competency content and critical thinking questions for the competencies throughout.

 

The book focuses on work with organizations and communities, including planned change approaches and implementation.

 

Teaching & Learning Experience 

Improve Critical Thinking – The entire text takes students from conceptual understanding to practicalities of implementation. Engage Students – A blend of historical ideologies with contemporary trends allows students to explore the development of social work practices. Explore Current Issues – The new edition includes up-to-date information on values and ethical dilemmas and community and organization analysis. Apply CSWE Core Competencies – Integrates the 2008 CSWE EPAS throughout – highlights competencies and practice behaviors and includes expensive pedagogy. Support Instructors – Instructor’s Manual and Test Bank, Computerized Test Bank (MyTest), Blackboard Test Item File, and PowerPoint presentations are included in the outstanding supplements package.

Genres: Social Work, Textbooks, School, Reference, Nonfiction, Academic

432 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 1993

Reviews

[Trisha · Rating 2 out of 5]

For my macro level social work class -- a topic I'm very interested in -- but the reading was monotonous and repetitive. I couldn't really tell you anything I learned from it off hand.

[Tema · Rating 2 out of 5]

Read this for a macro level social work class. The subject was interesting, but the presentation of the information was horrible. It is dense with theory and repetitive with unclear conclusions. I just finished the book and read the conclusion. I have no idea how the information as it was presented in the book could have lead anyone to have "a foundational understanding of theories and practices of macro social work."

[Kat · Rating 4 out of 5]

As far as textbooks go, this one was really pretty good! It took a lot of dense information and made it approachable.

[brian · Rating 3 out of 5]

Very informative but a difficult read

It has a lot of good content but it is very extensive. I thought at points they were pushing the reader away by being too thorough.

[Sierra · Rating 3 out of 5]

I read this book as part of the first-year curriculum in a graduate program. Though I was thoroughly interested in the wealth of knowledge it had to offer, I felt that the book could have been better organized - something that may be very key to first-year graduate students establishing their professional groundwork.

[Lindsay Allyson · Rating 2 out of 5]

1.5 stars

This book was irritating as HELL. Even though I'm interested in the subject matter, I found this really hard to read it. It was super boring and way too long. Definitely could cut about half the book out and still get the information across. Every time I sat down to read, I found my mind wandering.

[Jose · Rating 5 out of 5]

Read this for 521. very good. complete. thorough.

[Gwenhwyfar · Rating 3 out of 5]

It was informative but, it seems like most of the information could have been conveyed in a much more concise manner....

[Mohmed]

i thing is the thoery of rhe social work