Generalist Practice Approacheses In The Social Work Approach

Social Work Approaches Social work has seen four approaches that has change the profession. Each one has had some large impact to the field of social work with every new approach building off the last. Each approached with similarities and differences. The approaches are traditional practice approach, multimethod practice approach, generalist practice approach, and specialist practice approaches. The first approach was traditional methods. There are five practice methods: social cases, community organization, social group work, administration, and research (Sheafor, Morales, & Scott, 2012, p. 42). At this time in social work, all five were almost its own disciplines and professions. The first practice was social cases, and over the next

Similar to the last approach, generalist practice approach believe that all social workers should have a bases in all practices of social work. Influences by social systems theory, this approach believes that every social worker should be flexible and versatile because client’s problems are complex and affects the client in more way than one (Sheafor et al., 2012, p. 43). Also had two fundamental compounds that all social workers, according to this approach, should have the knowledge in all practices to help their clients efficiently and rather than pulling clients into methods, make the method about the client. Secondly, understand the person-environment relationship and be able to intervene in more than one system (Sheafor et al., 2012, p. 44). The generalist approach also follows a model that shows the relationship between education and knowledge needed for a social workers to be good at their job. These levels are generic foundations, generalist perspective, initial generalist, and advance generalist (Sheafor et al., 2012, p. 44). This is similar to the special practice approach were everyone learns the same foundations of skills, ethics, values, etc. of social work and as a social worker advances in their education and training, they are more