Generalist practice is concerned being able to work across client systems (Individual, family, group, community and organization). It is about seeing problems at the transactive points between systems (person and environment) and being able to intervene at any and all of these transactive points. It is about obtaining the core social work knowledge, values, and skills and being able to apply these to whatever client issue one is presented with.

Generalist practice represents the core of social work practice. Given that you are writing an essay on this, I would STRONGLY encourage you to look at your schools website (they probably have defined it) and at the text used in the course. You want to use language from both. DA