LibGuides: MSW-5000 v2: Week 6 Resources

Week 6 Required Resources

Cox, L., Tice, C., and Lond, D. (2021). Introduction to social work: An advocacy-based profession (3rd ed.). Sage Publishing.

Read Chapter 6
Read Chapter 13

Chapter 6 Family and Child Welfare provides a look at how social workers engage families at the mezzo level. Described within the child welfare context, this chapter illustrates the importance of intervention involving the whole family system. Chapter 13 focuses on the larger system, communities. This chapter discusses some of the issues social workers practicing at the macro level encounter

Access your Redshelf book by clicking on the Getting Started module in your course, or click on the Bookshelf link at the top of your course.

Social Work Practice: A Competency-Based Approach
Poulin, J. & Matis, S. (2019). Unit III: Mezzo and Macro Social Work Practices: Chapter 9. In Social work practice: A competency-based approach. Springer Publishing Company.
Read Chapter 9
This primary social work practice text, built around the nine core 2015 CSWE competencies, is the only book available that provides students with the benefits of a fully integrated competency-based approach. This unit addresses macro and mezzo social work practice.
Community Practice and the Afrocentric Paradigm
Nichols Fairfax, C. (2017). Community practice and the Afrocentric paradigm. Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment, 27(1-2), 73-80.
Community practice was developed by social reformers after Black people created communities after enslavement (Nichols Fairfax, 2017). Given America’s apartheid system of segregation, Black social leaders, also referred to as social reformers, were creating institutions and systems that not only attended to human needs but also affirmed culture, family, and traditions (Nichols Fairfax, 2017). As the Afrocentric perspective reinterpreted African philosophy, socioeconomic/political realities, and culture in the latter 20th century, social workers should apply this point of view within a community practice context to attend to systemic and environmental issues impacting the African American community (Nichols Fairfax, 2017). This article explores the intersection of community practice and the Afrocentric paradigm that social workers can apply in the 21st century (Nichols Fairfax, 2017).
Why Macro Practice Matters
Reisch, M. (2016). Why macro practice matters. Journal of Social Work Education, 52(3), 258–268. This article asserts that macro practice is increasingly important in today’s rapidly changing and complex practice environment (Reisch, 2016). It briefly explores the history of macro practice in U.S. social work, summarizes its major contributions to the profession and to U.S. society, and provides some suggestions for how social work programs can expand interest in macro practice among their students and increase the number of students who pursue macro-oriented careers (Reisch, 2016).
Impacts of an Intensive Macro-Oriented Social Work Programme on First-Year Students’ Values, Practice Preferences and Sense of Practice Competence
Segal-Engelchin, D., Kaufman, R., Huss, E., & Amos, O. (2017). Impacts of an intensive macro-oriented social work programme on first-year students’ values, practice preferences and sense of practice competence. British Journal of Social Work, 47(8), 2346–2363.
This study examined the outcomes of an innovative first-year programme that incorporated both macro-focused field training and service learning into the curriculum (Segal-Engelchin, Kaufman, Huss, & Amos, 2017).

Week 6 Optional Resource

Political Social Work: An Essential Component of the Profession
Friedman, L., Karim, M., Feiler, K., Padner, S., & Eyrich-Garg, K. (2020). Political Social Work: An Essential Component of the Profession. Journal of Health & Human Services Administration, 43(4), 359–381.