Macro Practice for Helping Professionals

Macro Practice for Helping Professionals: Evidence-Based Paradigms delves into the latest scholarship and best practices in the field, challenging readers to explore the empirical evidence informing community organization, planning, and management through a critical lens.

The authors provide practical tools, techniques, and evidence-based macro practice that help both students and practitioners understand how to be more effective on the job. Using systems, such as communities, organizations, and groups as the basis for exploring ideas, readers gain an appreciation of the complex forces under which they will be operating, acquire specific tools to help them function better and develop insights about the interactions between leaders, staff and organizations, and the larger systems that affect the helping professional fields. The robust pedagogy includes summaries, a list of questions and suggested assignments at the end of each chapter. Every chapter is chock-full of numerous case studies taken from actual experiences.

This book is designed for students in either undergraduate or graduate courses across the helping professions as well as practitioners.