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| Article Name : | | | GENERALIST SOCIAL WORK PRACTICE: APPROACHES, PROSPECTS AND CHALLENGES | | Author Name : | | | V. V. Kulkarni , Hemlata S. Kulkarni | | Publisher : | | | Ashok Yakkaldevi | | Article Series No. : | | | GRT-4366 | | Article URL : | |  | Author Profile View PDF In browser | | Abstract : | | | Social work practice is rarely a straightforward activity, but instead is characterised by complexity related to a range of oppressions impacting on both the service user's and the worker's situation. Unthinking, reactive practice is not enough to meet service users' needs or provide a good service. Instead, good practice is a skilled activity where workers constantly reflect on their knowledge, skills and values to make sense of the complex situations that service users face. Effective practice requires workers to develop a conscious awareness of their approach. The worker's orientation to the task will draw upon a number of aspects including an understanding of society and how it works; an awareness of wider political issues; personal and professional values; current knowledge base and organisational and cultural aspects of the agency. | | Keywords : | | - weakness and deterioration,
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