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The student manual includes classroom exercises and assignments designed to coincide directly with the text content and can be used to help students integrate reading material. Also contains detailed outlines of each chapter.

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This comprehensive book, loaded with case studies, offers a solid foundation for assessment of human behavior in macro settings. Kirst-Ashman offers the reader practical and concrete ways of thinking about how macro systems (or task groups, communities and organizations) affect human behavior, and how these influences have implications for macro social work practice. The theme of empowerment, or building on the strengths of communities, organizations, and groups to promote change, lies at the heart of the profession's goals and central philosophies.

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Now available in paperback format and thoroughly updated to reflect the latest CSWE ethical standards and current social work literature, this hands-on text offers a practical, user-friendly, and comprehensive introduction to foundation macro practice. Encouraging you to build on their one-on-one (micro) and group (mezzo) communication skills, the authors outline a guided, step-by-step plan for community and organizational change. Two models -- Prepare and Imagine -- form the heart of the book, providing valuable frameworks for effective macro social work practice. A running case study illustrates these models in action. The authors' coverage of such skills as working with the media, using new technological advances, fundraising, grant writing, and working within court settings -- as well as lively vignettes and a wide variety of highlights that include hands-on tips and sample forms -- will further enhance your expertise.

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(Publisher: Thomson Brooks/Cole (January 1, 2006) softcover.)

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Human Behavior, Communities, Organizations, and Groups in the Macro Social Environment: An Empowerment Approach by Kirst-Ashman, Karen K.(Karen K. Kirst-Ashman) (2007) Paperback

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Student Manual for Kirst-Ashman/Hull's Understanding Generalist Practice, 5th

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Introduction to Social Work & Social Welfare: Critical Thinking Perspectives

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Student Manual for Zastrow/Kirst-Ashman's Understanding Human Behavior and the Social Environment, 7th

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This helpful guide includes chapter outlines and a variety of classroom exercises, role plays, and issues for discussion to help students master the text's material. Can be packaged with the book; contact your local Cengage Learning representative for details.

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Karen K. Kirst-Ashman's introductory book enhances the reader's ability to grasp the essence and spirit of generalist social work and the issues in social welfare that social workers address every day. Giving those contemplating a career in social work a solid introduction to the profession, Kirst-Ashman presents a balanced introductory look within a unifying theme of critical thinking that trains readers to be more evaluative of key concepts. The topics covered include practice concepts, social welfare policy concepts, history and current state of the profession, the contexts of practice and populations served, and professional development.

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Macro Skills Workbook: A Generalist Approach

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This workbook provides a wide range of exercises, role playing activities and case scenarios to help students practice specific macro skills. The text's versatility allows it to be the primary text in a practice course or as a supplement to accompany other macro theory texts, especially GENERALIST PRACTICE WITH ORGANIZATIONS AND COMMUNITIES, 2nd by the same authors! The authors integrate macro development for field internships, as well as enhance macro skill development for social workers in the field. Specific macro practice skills are presented in a straightforward manner, and both applications to actual macro practice situations and the importance of client system strengths are emphasized throughout.

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Student Manual for Kirst-Ashman/Hull, Jr.'s Understanding Generalist Practice, 4th

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Understanding Human Behavior and the Social Environment (Nelson-Hall Series in Social Work)

(Using systems theoretical framework, this text incorporat...)

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