Social Work Skills for Community Practice

Applied Macro Social Work

2nd Edition

Mary-Ellen Brown, Katie Stalker
Springer Publishing
375 pages
ISBN: 9780826158345
November 2022

This comprehensive text prepares social work students for careers in community organizing and macro practice. It focuses on building the social work skills required for organizing communities, including cause-based coalitions, geographically/identity-based communities, and health and human service organizations, to achieve culturally relevant, equity- and justice-driven social change. The second edition presents new information that includes self-care for the community practitioner, social work grand challenges, cultural humility, trauma-informed and resiliency-focused community development, environmental justice, and many other topics.