Generalist Social Work Case Study

“Generalist social work provides an integrated and multileveled approach for meeting the purpose of social work. Practitioners acknowledge the interplay of personal and collective issues, prompting them to work with a variety of human systems—societies, communities, neighborhoods, complex organizations, formal groups, families, and individuals—to create changes that maximize human system functioning.” (Miley, O 'Melia, Dubois, 2013).This means that generalist social workers work directly with their client systems at all levels. The different levels are Microlevel systems, mezzolevel systems, and macrolevel systems. The view of generalist social work is like the view through a wide-angle lens of a camera. It takes in the whole, even when focusing on an individual part.
Microlevel intervention focuses on work with individuals, families, and small groups, Mezzolevel interventions focus on organizations and formal groups, and lastly the macrolevel interventions addresses social problems in the communities, institutional, and social systems. The Hummingbird family would be on the microlevel. Social workers use skills such as crisis intervention, referrals, and group processes. (Miley, O 'Melia, Dubois, pg.8).
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The strategy behind being an enabler is to empower your clients to in finding solutions and working for constructive and sustainable change. “Use varying approaches in order to provide the conditions necessary for clients to achieve their purposes, meet life challenges, engage in their natural life development processes, and carry out their tasks.” (Miley, O 'Melia, Dubois, pg.13). As a social worker with the Hummingbird family, one would want to convey hope, help reduce resistance, recognize and manage feelings, and help identify their strengths. It is very clear from the scenario that Joe, Anna, and Neal have many things going on in their lives that are causing so many different