Brooks And Cole Empowerment Series: Direct Social Work Practice

Many aspects affect a person’s ability to stay on a specific task: distractions, psychological effects, and even noisy environments. Clients, including: families and individuals, in the Social Work professions have difficult times staying focus on a problem. In Brooks and Cole Empowerment Series: Direct Social Work Practice, 9th Edition book, specifies that the task-centered model with minors include improving school performance, changing or modifying behavior in residential facilities, and reducing sibling conflict. A task-centered model for group work with single mothers in the college setting’ by Raushi implicates how the task models affected and help single parents in college. Too, the task-centered model for field instruction by Caspi, J., discussed the
The task-centered model has been used in various settings and has been proven to work efficiently. According to Brooks and Cole, The task-centered model is defined as a social work practice model developed by William Reid and Laura Epstein. The model’s contribution to social work practice is the specific focus on problems of concern identified by the client and its emphasis on tasks and the collaborative responsibilities between the client and the social worker. The model ultimately theory was made to keep clients actively involved in the primary problem of the conversation and for resist clients to improve their availability to stay focus (Brooks and Cole 2013, 2010).