The Life Model of Social Work Practice: Advances in Theory and Practice: (4th Ed.), by Alex Gitterman, Carolyn Knight and Carel B. Germain, New York, Columbia University Press, 2021, 756 pp., $65 (hardcover), ISBN # 978-02321187480.

The Life Model of Social Work Practice: Advances in Theory and Practice: (4th Ed.), Chapter 1 focuses on social work practice and its historical traditions; chapter 2 addresses the ecological perspective and its relationship to practice; chapter 3 provides an overview of the life model of social work practice; chapter 4 expounds on culturally competent and diversity-sensitive practice and cultural humility; and chapter 5 examines assessment through the lens of evidence-guided practice, and practice evaluation. As a consequence, the chapter emphasizes the centrality of clients' voices in the assessment process, an approach to clinical practice that reinforces their personal agency and psychological fortitude. [Extracted from the article]