Third Stage Of The Generalist Practice Model

The third stage of the generalist practice model is the intervention process. This is where the social worker tries to empower their clients, so that their clients will want to be advocates for themselves. During this stage, the social worker can use multiple approaches on helping their clients get this spot, such as the narrative intervention and the solution-focused intervention. The intervention stage is where the social worker takes the client’s needs into consideration when they are coming up with resources that could help their client reach that point that they are trying to achieve (Birkenmaier & Weger, 2017). This stage is manly focused on how the social worker can best serve the client and their needs.
Learned from placement, class,
The main information that I gained was about the different traditional roles that a social worker plays in this stage. The one role that I was able to observe at my placement was the broker. This is where the social worker helps the clients connect with outside resources (Birkenmaier & Weger, 2017). I got to observe a social worker helping inmates find outside resources, such as treatment facilities or employment agencies, for when they got released from jail. The one role that I learned about in class was the mediator. I learned that the role of a mediator is be the outsider looking in on the issue to help our clients see the situation from another perspective (Birkenmaier & Weger, 2017). The role play that we did in class helped me understand how the role of a mediator is an important part of the intervention process. The one thing that I learned from the textbook about the intervention process is the different intervention processes, like the solution-focused process. Through reading the definition, the example given in the textbook, helped for when we went over examples in the class room. Throughout learning about the intervention process, my placement, the textbook, and class all worked together to help me understand the stage in