Families, groups, communities, organizations, and individuals are all populations in which generalist practitioners strive to give their best assistance. Practitioners often view many clients and client systems in a way in which focuses on their strengths so building on his/her capabilities while supporting them through this process will be effective. This can be known as using the strengths perspective. Along with using the client’s strengths to support their capabilities, practitioners use their ability to: engage, assess, broker services, advocate, counsel, educate, and organize on the clients behalf through professional problem solving. A practitioner’s work is not complete until he/she evaluates service outcomes so the chance for growth
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According to Jiang and Yang, critical thinking is defined as, “purposeful, self-regulatory judgment, leading to interpretation, analysis, evaluation, and inference, as well as explanation of the evidential, conceptual, methodological, criteriological, or contextual considerations upon which that judgment is based (Jiang & Yang, 2015).” With critical thinking one can problem solve despite the limited resources they may be given. Organizational skills of a generalist practitioner need to possess time management skills and open communication in order to assist clients in the best way possible. According to Leigh and Helen, “Barriers to communication such as a lack of appropriate resources, communication supports or staff knowledge and skills can reduce the individual’s success in interactions (Leigh and Helen, 2014).”Flexibility with my own schedule as well as when crises may arise are important. “Evidence suggests that flexibility of work schedule, in particular, contributes to valuable organizational outcomes such as productivity, absenteeism, and job satisfaction” There will be times during my professional career where I will need to make my schedule flexible enough to where I can be available for my clients just in case an emergency may …show more content…
Connection to Service-Learning experience, the effectiveness of observed general social work practices, literature review of generalist practice, and knowledge, values and skills have all played a role in helping me realize why and how important it is to be a social worker that is aware and prepared for professional practice. Generalist practice in social work should continue to involve striving to give families, groups, communities, organizations, and individuals their best assistance. Along with continuing the use of the client’s strengths to support their
According to Jiang and Yang, critical thinking is defined as, “purposeful, self-regulatory judgment, leading to interpretation, analysis, evaluation, and inference, as well as explanation of the evidential, conceptual, methodological, criteriological, or contextual considerations upon which that judgment is based (Jiang & Yang, 2015).” With critical thinking one can problem solve despite the limited resources they may be given. Organizational skills of a generalist practitioner need to possess time management skills and open communication in order to assist clients in the best way possible. According to Leigh and Helen, “Barriers to communication such as a lack of appropriate resources, communication supports or staff knowledge and skills can reduce the individual’s success in interactions (Leigh and Helen, 2014).”Flexibility with my own schedule as well as when crises may arise are important. “Evidence suggests that flexibility of work schedule, in particular, contributes to valuable organizational outcomes such as productivity, absenteeism, and job satisfaction” There will be times during my professional career where I will need to make my schedule flexible enough to where I can be available for my clients just in case an emergency may …show more content…
Connection to Service-Learning experience, the effectiveness of observed general social work practices, literature review of generalist practice, and knowledge, values and skills have all played a role in helping me realize why and how important it is to be a social worker that is aware and prepared for professional practice. Generalist practice in social work should continue to involve striving to give families, groups, communities, organizations, and individuals their best assistance. Along with continuing the use of the client’s strengths to support their