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Department of Social Work
Nursing Building Room 425
Indiana State University
Phone: 812.237.3611
Fax: 812.237.8114
Email: Dawn Smith
Generalist Social Work Practitioner
Through the baccalaureate curriculum at ISU, graduates will be prepared to be generalist social work practitioners.
The Program has adopted the following Generalist practice definition, identified by The Association of Baccalaureate Social Work Education Program Directors (BPD) (2006):
- Generalist social work practitioners work with
- individuals, families, groups, communities and organizations
- in a variety of social work and host settings
- Generalist practitioners
- view clients and client systems from a
strengths perspective in order to
- recognize, support, and build upon the innate capabilities of all human beings
- use a professional problem solving process to engage, assess, broker services, advocate, counsel, educate, and organize with and on behalf of client and client systems.
- engage in community and organizational development
- evaluate service outcomes in order to continually improve the provision and quality of services most appropriate to client needs
- view clients and client systems from a
strengths perspective in order to
- Generalist social work practice is
- guided by the NASW Code of Ethics
- committed to improving the well being of individuals, families, groups, communities and organizations
- furthering the goals of social justice
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