Macro Social Work Practice: Advocacy in Action

Table of Contents:
PREFACE ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ABOUT THE AUTHORS CHAPTER 1. A Historical Perspective of Macro Practice and Advocacy WHAT IS MACRO PRACTICE? WHAT DOES MACRO SOCIAL WORK PRACTICE MEAN? THE HISTORICAL CONTEXT OF MACRO PRACTICE THE UNIQUE CONTRIBUTIONS OF MACRO PRACTICE THE SOCIAL WORK VALUES OF MACRO PRACTICE ADVOCACY AND EMPOWERMENT CHAPTER 2. Contemporary Macro Practice Perspectives PLANNED CHANGE PROCESS AND CONTEMPORARY PERSPECTIVES AND ORIENTATIONS THE PROBLEM-CENTERED APPROACH THE STRENGTHS PERSPECTIVE ECOLOGICAL THEORY EMPOWERMENT SYSTEMS THEORY PERSON-IN-ENVIRONMENT ADVOCACY MODEL A COMMUNITY-BASED PRACTICE ORIENTATION INTEGRATING PERSPECTIVES AND ORIENTATIONS WITH MACRO PRACTICE ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS CHAPTER 3. Engage Diversity and Difference DEFINING DIVERSITY AND DIFFERENCE THE ROLE OF CULTURAL COMPETENCE AND CULTURAL HUMILITY IN MACRO PRACTICE WHAT IS INTERSECTIONALITY IN MACRO PRACTICE? IMPLICIT AND EXPLICIT BIASES INCLUSION ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE CHAPTER 4. An Advocacy Model for Dynamic Practice WHAT IS ADVOCACY? ADVOCACY AND ETHICS ADVOCACY AND MACRO PRACTICE THE ADVOCACY PRACTICE AND POLICY MODEL (APPM) THEORETICAL FOUNDATION OF THE ADVOCACY PRACTICE AND POLICY MODEL HOW THE APPM APPLIES TO MACRO PRACTICE CHAPTER 5. Understanding and Enriching Organizational Life THE RELEVANCE OF ORGANIZATIONS IN SOCIAL WORK THE CONCEPT OF ORGANIZATION TYPES OF ORGANIZATIONS UNDERSTANDING ORGANIZATIONS USING THEORIES AND PERSPECTIVES HOW ORGANIZATIONS FUNCTION HUMAN DIVERSITY AND HUMAN SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS ORGANIZATION AS A SYSTEM ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPERS EMPOWERMENT ETHICAL ISSUES THAT OCCUR WITHIN ORGANIZATIONS CHAPTER 6. Exploring the Concept of Communities and Community Practice HOW ARE COMMUNITIES DEFINED? FUNCTIONS OF COMMUNITIES SOCIAL WORK AND COMMUNITY PRACTICE OVERVIEW AND HISTORY OF COMMUNITY PRACTICE AND ORGANIZING USEFUL THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES IN COMMUNITY PRACTICE STRATEGIES APPLYING THE ADVOCACY PRACTICE AND POLICY MODEL TO COMMUNITY PRACTICE PRINCIPLES ON USING A STRENGTHS PERSPECTIVE USING COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION THEORY TO IMPROVE PRACTICE CONSIDER ETHICAL ISSUES ASSOCIATED WITH COMMUNITY PRACTICE CHAPTER 7. Social Planning WHAT IS SOCIAL PLANNING? CONSUMER PARTICIPATION IN SOCIAL PLANNING WAYS OF APPROACHING SOCIAL PLANNING ADVOCACY MODEL PRACTICAL CONSIDERATIONS IN MACRO SOCIAL WORK PRACTICE STRATEGIC PLANNING FROM AN ORGANIZATIONAL STANDPOINT SOCIAL PLANNING PROCESS THE NIMBY PHENOMENON RESOURCE CONSIDERATIONS IN SOCIAL PLANNING SOCIAL PLANNING AS A COOPERATIVE EDUCATIONAL PROCESS PLANNING FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT CHAPTER 8. Administration and Leadership: Building on Advocacy and Strengths WHAT IS ADMINISTRATION? ADMINISTRATIVE ROLES ADMINISTRATIVE TASKS SOCIAL WORK ADMINISTRATION FROM A STRENGTHS PERSPECTIVE THE ADVOCACY PRACTICE AND POLICY MODEL AND SOCIAL WORK ADMINISTRATION ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS CHAPTER 9. Policy Practice, Political Persuasion, and Advocacy POLICY PRACTICE, POLITICAL PERSUASION, AND ADVOCACY DEFINING SOCIAL POLICY THE PROBLEM-CENTERED APPROACH THE POLICY PROCESS FROM A STRENGTHS PERSPECTIVE THE ADVOCACY PRACTICE AND POLICY MODEL AND POLICY PRACTICE KNOWING THE POLITICAL PROCESS THINKING AND ACTING POLITICALLY INFLUENCING THE POLITICAL PROCESS PROFESSIONAL SKILLS IN POLICY PRACTICE ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS CHAPTER 10. Using Technology in Social Work Practice ADVANCES IN TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIAL MEDIA THE USE OF TECHNOLOGY BY SOCIAL WORKERS ADVOCACY SUITES THE ADVOCACY PRACTICE AND POLICY MODEL AND TECHNOLOGY ETHICAL ISSUES ASSOCIATED WITH TECHNOLOGY FUTURE USE OF TECHNOLOGY IN SOCIAL WORK PRACTICE CHAPTER 11. Informing Macro Practice With Research WHAT IS EVIDENCE-BASED RESEARCH MACRO PRACTICE? QUANTITATIVE VS. QUALITATIVE ANALYSES ETHICAL DILEMMAS IN RESEARCH STRATEGIES INFUSING RESEARCH FINDINGS INTO MACRO PRACTICE DISSEMINATION OF RESEARCH FINDINGS CHAPTER 12. Evaluating Macro Change WHAT IS EVALUATION? FUNDING SOURCES AND RESEARCH PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH AND POLICY AND PRACTICE ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS CHAPTER 13. Advocacy for Human Rights and Social, Economic, and Environmental Justice VALUES BASE OF SOCIAL WORK POLITICAL ACTIVISM POLITICAL LEANINGS HUMAN RIGHTS AND SOCIAL, ECONOMIC, AND ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE APPLY THE ADVOCACY PRACTICE AND POLICY MODEL (APPM) ADVOCACY STRATEGIES FOR HUMAN RIGHTS AND SOCIAL, ECONOMIC, AND ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE CHAPTER 14. Assessing Your Macro Practice Skills MACRO PRACTICE AS A LIFELONG CALLING ENGAGING IN SELF-ASSESSMENT RECOGNIZING STRENGTHS IN MACRO PRACTICE ROLES ADVOCACY STARTS WITH SELF THE VALUE OF NETWORKING, PARTNERSHIPS, AND COLLABORATIONS STAY CURRENT THROUGH READING APPENDIX GLOSSARY REFERENCES INDEX

About the Author :
Carolyn J. Tice, DSW, ACSW, was professor and associate dean of the Baccalaureate Social Work Program, School of Social Work, University of Maryland, from July 2002 to August 2020. Her prior 9-year appointment was as chair of the Department of Social Work, Ohio University, where she introduced the Masters in Social Work (MSW) with a focus on rural policy and practice.  Dr. Tice received her BSW from West Virginia University and an MSW from Temple University, and she completed her DSW at the University of Pennsylvania, where she worked with Hmong refugees.  She holds a Certificate in Administration from the Wharton School. Dr. Tice is the coauthor of numerous books and peer-reviewed articles; her scholarship focuses primarily on the development of critical-thinking skills and social work practice and policy from a strengths and advocacy perspective. She is on the editorial board of the Journal of Teaching in Social Work and serves as a book prospectus reviewer for Wadsworth, SAGE, and Wiley. In 2008, she was named a Fulbright specialist and traveled to Mongolia to assist in the development of social work programs. Dr. Tice has worked with the Fulbright program for 9 years as an application reviewer. Her other international social work experiences include program development in Botswana, India, Portugal, Taiwan, Vietnam, and China.  Dr. Tice is a member of the Council of Social Work Education and the National Association of Social Workers, and she is associated with the American Friends Service Committee and the Friends Committee on National Legislation.  Dr. Tice is the proprietor of Olde Friends, a booth in an antique store located on the southern New Jersey coastline.    Dennis D. Long, PhD, ACSW, is an Emeritus Professor of Social Work at  Xavier University (Cincinnati, Ohio). Dr. Long previously served as professor and chair of the Department of Social Work and as the associate dean and interim dean of the College of Professional Sciences at Xavier University. From 2006 to 2012, he was a professor and chair of the Department of Social Work at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He received his BA in sociology and psychology from Ohio Northern University, his MSW from The Ohio State University, and his PhD in sociology from the University of Cincinnati. The coauthor of numerous other books and articles, Dr. Long has focused his scholarship, leadership, and teaching in the areas of advocacy and macro social work, with special interests in community-based and international practice. He has served on the editorial board of the Journal of Teaching in Social Work and over many years was a long-standing member of the National Association of Social Workers and Council on Social Work Education. Dr. Long has provided leadership on numerous community and national boards, including the Butler County Mental Health Board, Oesterlen Services for Youth, Charlotte Family Housing, and the National Board of Examiners in Optometry.   Lisa E. Cox, Lisa E. Cox, PhD, LCSW, MSW, is professor of social work and gerontology and a former social work program chair at Stockton University. Prior to 1999, Dr. Cox held a joint faculty appointment at Virginia Commonwealth University’s (VCU′s) School of Medicine (Richmond AIDS Consortium) and School of Social Work, where she taught MSW students and served as a pioneering AIDS clinical trial social worker with the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease–funded Terry Beirn Community Programs for Clinical Research on AIDS. Dr. Cox received BA degrees in History/Political Science and Spanish from Bridgewater College and her MSW and PhD degrees from VCU. From 2007 to 2025, she served as a fellow, research scholar, advisory board member, and research chair for the Stockton Center on Successful Aging. Dr. Cox teaches undergraduate- and graduate-level classes in social work practice, gerontology, HIV/AIDS, research, psychopathology and cultural neuroscience, and clinical social work in health care. She has co-led study tours to Costa Rica and traveled throughout Europe, India, Nepal, Mexico, and Australia. She was a 2014 faculty scholar with the Geriatric Education Center Initiative and is a ten-year governor appointee to and vice chair for the New Jersey Board of Social Work Examiners. As a long-standing member of the National Association of Social Workers (NASW), Dr. Cox has shared her vast practice experience by holding numerous leadership roles within NASW: National Advisory Board member to the Spectrum HIV/AIDS Project, chair of the Health Specialty Practice Section, Standards for Social Work Practice in Health Care Settings Task Force expert, long-term care liaison to the Joint Commission on Health Care, and unit chairperson. Dr. Cox has presented her scholarship nationally and internationally. As the coauthor of numerous books, Dr. Cox has also authored several book chapters and numerous journal articles focused on health social work, gerontology, international social work, social support, medication adherence, and social work licensure. In 2024, Dr. Cox was approved as a Fulbright Teaching Specialist; and, since 2022 Dr. Cox has been a PASWHA (Professional Association of Social Workers and HIV/AIDS) Board member and an Atlantic County Mental Health Advisory Board member.  Dr. Cox relaxes by playing the piano, walking on the beach/boardwalk, watching baseball, and listening to music.