Generalist practice social workers need to master group leadership and facilitation skills, and the best way to achieve this goal is through actual practice. An innovative teaching approach used to engage undergraduate social work majors in developing group facilitation skills is a "hands-on" service-learning experience leading social…

Effective social work practice with diverse populations requires the successful incorporation of multicultural knowledge, awareness, and skills. As a result, there is a pressing need for innovative and evidence-based teaching strategies and methods that provide social work students with these key multicultural tools. This paper describes one such…

We describe in this paper the evolving development and evaluation of a praxis-based comprehensive project model in an advanced generalist MSW program. We explain how this model provides students an effective and meaningful way to incorporate social work generalist principles into professional practice, develop expertise about specific clients and…