Unique among textbooks, Techniques and Guidelines for Social Work Practice emphasizes different techniques that social workers need to conduct their practice.

Organized to support a generalist practice perspective, this text includes every way in which both direct and indirect intervention activities are a part of the social worker's repertoire. Parts I and II summarize the essential foundation elements of social work practice, while Parts III and IV set out 160 comprehensible techniques and guidelines that can be used by students and new practitioners. The text is widely applicable, as it touches upon everything from cultural competence to macro practice.