Generalist Practice Examples

Generalist Practice Definition.

Generalist Practice is an effective manner of Social Worker and client interaction.
It focuses on the social workers knowledge of resources, and interventions available both private, and in the community. It involves good verbal and listening skills. It further involves the social workers ability to make appropriate evaluations, assessments, effective referrals, and terminations. It involves counseling clients to recognize their strengths and weaknesses and to identify problems, and to set attainable goals. It further involves helping clients to be receptive to solutions through linking clients with necessary support whether in the community, or private. . Social Workers wear many hats involving client and families, and problem resolutions.

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(2) Three specific examples of generalized practice seen in this case:

As a result of that problem the parents were arrested , and social services (child protective services) were notified and the child , who was one year old, was removed from the home and placed temporarily with the maternal grandmother, who lived near the child’s natural home . In this situation the example of generalist practice involved assessment and intervention. An assessment of the Childs safety was required and intervention by referral to child protective services was made to temporarily remove child from parents home and place with maternal