Generalist Social Work Practice: An Empowering Approach

About Brenda DuboisKarla MileyMichael O'Melia

Karla Krogsrud Miley A.M. ACSW retired in 2009 from her appointment as professor and Chair of the Department of Social Behavioral and Educational Studies at Black Hawk College in Moline Illinois where she taught life span psychology introductory psychology and introductory social work. She continues to teach human behavior theory as an adjunct professor for the St. Ambrose University MSW program in Davenport Iowa. A graduate of the University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration and a licensed social worker in Illinois Miley has experience in a variety of fields of practice including school social work and aging services. She has extensive experience in facilitating workshops and conference sessions on generalist social work and empowerment and social justice. She has served on the editorial board of Social Work Education and on the Social Work Advisory Board for Pearson Education.  Professor Miley is a coauthor of Social Work: An Empowering Profession (8th edition) co-editor of Pathways to Power: Reading in Contextual Social Work Practice and works collaboratively with Michael OMelia and Brenda DuBois in writing Generalist Social Work Practice: An Empowering Approach (8th edition forthcoming).   Michael O'Melia is a retired Associate Professor in the St. Ambrose University MSW Program Davenport Iowa. He specialized in teaching clinical social work with expertise in generalist collaborative and anti-oppressive methods. OMelia is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in Illinois working for over forty years with individuals couples families and small groups in child welfare delinquency prevention family therapy and school-based practice settings. In addition to co-authoring Generalist Social Work Practice: An Empowering Approach OMelia is co-editor of Pathways to Power: Reading in Contextual Social Work Practice. Functioning as a community trainer and program consultant OMelia focuses on developing culturally competent practices working with resistant and mandated clients and implementing strength-based clinical strategies. He has been a member of the Social Work Advisory Board for Pearson Education serves on the Editorial Advisory Board of the Rumanian Social Work Review and contributes as a reviewer to the Journal of Progressive Human Services.   Brenda DuBois PhD MSW professor emerita was the director of the graduate School of Social work at St. Ambrose University Davenport Iowa.  A graduate of the University of Iowa (social work) and Illinois State University (Higher Education Administration) Dr. DuBois has been a social work educator for 35 years in both BSW and MSW programs with teaching specialties in generalist practice social welfare history and policy social justice empowerment and ethics. She has served on several community boards and service delivery planning groups. Additionally as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in Illinois she has extensive experience in facilitating workshops staff development training and conference sessions on generalist social work empowerment social work social justice and social work ethics. Dr. DuBois is a coauthor with Karla Miley of Social Work: An Empowering Profession (8th edition) and works collaboratively with Karla Miley and Michael OMelia in writing Generalist Social Work Practice: An Empowering Approach (8th edition forthcoming).