Macro Practice in Social Work for the 21st Century

Bridging the Macro-Micro Divide
Second Edition
Steve Burghardt
Macro Practice in Social Work for the 21st Century
October 2013 | 512 pages | Sage US
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Macro Practice in Social Work for the 21st Century, Second Edition offers a modern approach to building effective career skills in macro practice. Author Steve Burghardt inspires students by tracing the careers of macro-practitioners from grass roots organizers to agency executives. By focusing on how practitioners can make meaningful, strategic choices regardless of their formal roles and responsibilities, this Second Edition takes a refreshing new approach on the key issues of how to respond to diversity and oppression, the use of the internet for organization, the limits of “virtual trust,” understanding where "micro" and "macro" meet in practice, and co-leadership development.

Contents

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments

Introduction to the Second Edition: Focus, Outline, Learning Objectives, Competencies

Introduction to the Second Edition: Focus, Outline, Learning Objectives, Competencies

Section One: Pre-Engagement

  • Chapter 1. Starting Before the Beginning: Historical Origins, Strategic Assumptions & Professional Development: The Creation of A Textbook
  • Chapter 2. Developing Pre-Engagement Skills through An Understanding of Context: “History Moves”

Section Two: Engagement

  • Chapter 3. Using Engagement Skills to Improve Community Assessments: Joining ‘Micro’ to ‘Macro’ through Tactical Self-Awareness
  • Chapter 4. The Unconscious in Organizing: The Struggle to Build Authentic Relationships in Community Interventions
  • Chapter 5. The Social Construction of Practice: Where ‘Macro’ and ‘Micro’ Meet on the Road Towards Personal and Community Transformation

Section Three: Relationship-Building

  • Chapter 6. “Embody the Change You Seek:” Leadership Development through Relationship-Building
  • Chapter 7. Why Can’t We All Just Get Along?: Building Effective Coalitions While Resolving The Not-So-Hidden Realities of Race, Gender, Class, Sexuality and Age In Everyday Practice

Section Four: Interventions

  • Chapter 8. From Checkers to Chess: The Strategic Development of A Community Practitioner
  • Chapter 9. Think Local, Act Global: A Case Example of 21st Century Macro Practice through the Power of Social Networking
  • Chapter 10: Expanding the Practitioner Toolkit: Social Workers Inside the Political Arena
  • Chapter 11: The Re-emergence of Environmental Activism Within Social Work by Kristin Lebeaveau & Meredith Ledlie

Section Five: Evaluation

  • Chapter 12. Crossing the Great Divide: A Grass Roots Organizer Evaluates How to be a Socially Committed Supervisor…and Beyond
  • Chapter 13. So Much Information, So Little Time: Human Service Executives’ Strategic, Evidence-Based Search for Social Justice

Conclusion

  • Chapter 14. Summing Up, Moving Forward: Key lessons and New Directions for 21st Century Practice Towards Personal & Social Transformation

Index

Index

About the Author

About the Author

Additional materials

Description

Macro Practice in Social Work for the 21st Century, Second Edition offers a modern approach to building effective career skills in macro practice. Author Steve Burghardt inspires students by tracing the careers of macro-practitioners from grass roots organizers to agency executives. By focusing on how practitioners can make meaningful, strategic choices regardless of their formal roles and responsibilities, this Second Edition takes a refreshing new approach on the key issues of how to respond to diversity and oppression, the use of the internet for organization, the limits of “virtual trust,” understanding where "micro" and "macro" meet in practice, and co-leadership development.

Contents

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments

Introduction to the Second Edition: Focus, Outline, Learning Objectives, Competencies

Introduction to the Second Edition: Focus, Outline, Learning Objectives, Competencies

Section One: Pre-Engagement

  • Chapter 1. Starting Before the Beginning: Historical Origins, Strategic Assumptions & Professional Development: The Creation of A Textbook
  • Chapter 2. Developing Pre-Engagement Skills through An Understanding of Context: “History Moves”

Section Two: Engagement

  • Chapter 3. Using Engagement Skills to Improve Community Assessments: Joining ‘Micro’ to ‘Macro’ through Tactical Self-Awareness
  • Chapter 4. The Unconscious in Organizing: The Struggle to Build Authentic Relationships in Community Interventions
  • Chapter 5. The Social Construction of Practice: Where ‘Macro’ and ‘Micro’ Meet on the Road Towards Personal and Community Transformation

Section Three: Relationship-Building

  • Chapter 6. “Embody the Change You Seek:” Leadership Development through Relationship-Building
  • Chapter 7. Why Can’t We All Just Get Along?: Building Effective Coalitions While Resolving The Not-So-Hidden Realities of Race, Gender, Class, Sexuality and Age In Everyday Practice

Section Four: Interventions

  • Chapter 8. From Checkers to Chess: The Strategic Development of A Community Practitioner
  • Chapter 9. Think Local, Act Global: A Case Example of 21st Century Macro Practice through the Power of Social Networking
  • Chapter 10: Expanding the Practitioner Toolkit: Social Workers Inside the Political Arena
  • Chapter 11: The Re-emergence of Environmental Activism Within Social Work by Kristin Lebeaveau & Meredith Ledlie

Section Five: Evaluation

  • Chapter 12. Crossing the Great Divide: A Grass Roots Organizer Evaluates How to be a Socially Committed Supervisor…and Beyond
  • Chapter 13. So Much Information, So Little Time: Human Service Executives’ Strategic, Evidence-Based Search for Social Justice

Conclusion

  • Chapter 14. Summing Up, Moving Forward: Key lessons and New Directions for 21st Century Practice Towards Personal & Social Transformation

Index

Index

About the Author

About the Author

Additional materials

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Macro Practice in Social Work for the 21st Century

Bridging the Macro-Micro Divide

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October 2013 | 512 pages | Sage US

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Macro Practice in Social Work for the 21st Century, Second Edition offers a modern approach to building effective career skills in macro practice. Author Steve Burghardt inspires students by tracing the careers of macro-practitioners from grass roots organizers to agency executives. By focusing on how practitioners can make meaningful, strategic choices regardless of their formal roles and responsibilities, this Second Edition takes a refreshing new approach on the key issues of how to respond to diversity and oppression, the use of the internet for organization, the limits of “virtual trust,” understanding where "micro" and "macro" meet in practice, and co-leadership development.


Table Of Contents:

  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction to the Second Edition: Focus, Outline, Learning Objectives, Competencies
  • Section One: Pre-Engagement
  • Chapter 1. Starting Before the Beginning: Historical Origins, Strategic Assumptions & Professional Development: The Creation of A Textbook
  • Chapter 2. Developing Pre-Engagement Skills through An Understanding of Context: “History Moves”
  • Section Two: Engagement
  • Chapter 3. Using Engagement Skills to Improve Community Assessments: Joining ‘Micro’ to ‘Macro’ through Tactical Self-Awareness
  • Chapter 4. The Unconscious in Organizing: The Struggle to Build Authentic Relationships in Community Interventions
  • Chapter 5. The Social Construction of Practice: Where ‘Macro’ and ‘Micro’ Meet on the Road Towards Personal and Community Transformation
  • Section Three: Relationship-Building
  • Chapter 6. “Embody the Change You Seek:” Leadership Development through Relationship-Building
  • Chapter 7. Why Can’t We All Just Get Along?: Building Effective Coalitions While Resolving The Not-So-Hidden Realities of Race, Gender, Class, Sexuality and Age In Everyday Practice
  • Section Four: Interventions
  • Chapter 8. From Checkers to Chess: The Strategic Development of A Community Practitioner
  • Chapter 9. Think Local, Act Global: A Case Example of 21st Century Macro Practice through the Power of Social Networking
  • Chapter 10: Expanding the Practitioner Toolkit: Social Workers Inside the Political Arena
  • Chapter 11: The Re-emergence of Environmental Activism Within Social Work by Kristin Lebeaveau & Meredith Ledlie
  • Section Five: Evaluation
  • Chapter 12. Crossing the Great Divide: A Grass Roots Organizer Evaluates How to be a Socially Committed Supervisor…and Beyond
  • Chapter 13. So Much Information, So Little Time: Human Service Executives’ Strategic, Evidence-Based Search for Social Justice
  • Conclusion
  • Chapter 14. Summing Up, Moving Forward: Key lessons and New Directions for 21st Century Practice Towards Personal & Social Transformation
  • Index
  • About the Author

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