Macro Practice for Helping Professionals

Macro Practice for Helping Professionals: Evidence-Based Paradigms delves into the latest scholarship and best practices in the field, challenging readers to explore the empirical evidence informing community organization, planning, and management through a critical lens. The authors provide practical tools, techniques, and evidence-based macro practice that help both students and practitioners understand how to be more effective on the job. Using Systems, such as communities, organizations, and groups as the basis for exploring ideas, readers gain an appreciation of the complex forces under which they will be operating, acquire specific tools to help them function better and develop insights about the interactions between leaders, staff and organizations, and the larger systems that affect the helping professional fields.

The robust pedagogy includes summaries, a list of questions and suggested assignments at the end of each chapter. Every chapter is chock-full of numerous case studies taken from actual experiences.

This book is designed for students in either undergraduate or graduate courses across the helping professions as well as practitioners.

Murali D. Nair (Ph.D., Columbia University) is a Senior Fulbright Scholar and an Adjunct Professor of Leadership, Management and Social Entrepreneurship at Columbia University. An award-winning instructor and author of eleven books, Dr. Nair teaches graduate courses in Social Policy, Corporate Social Responsibility and Mindfulness.

Erick G. Guerrero (Ph.D., University of Chicago) is the Founder and Research Director at the I-LEAD Institute, Research to End Healthcare Disparities Corp. Dr. Guerrero has published more than 100 peer-review articles and books on disparities in access to healthcare and the implementation of culturally responsive and evidence-based practices.

George S. Tsagaris (Ph.D., Cleveland State University) is an Associate Professor in the School of Social Work at Cleveland State University, primarily teaching undergraduate and graduate-level courses in the Macro Practice area. In addition to his teaching career, Dr. Tsagaris is a Licensed Independent Social Worker - Supervisor designee. He has extensive experience in supervision, management, and administration.