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date: 18 February 2025

Task-Centered Practicelocked

Task-Centered Practicelocked

  • Michael S. KellyMichael S. KellyLoyola University Chicago School of Social Work
  • , and Marjorie E. ColindresMarjorie E. ColindresLoyola University Chicago

Summary

Task-centered practice is a social work technology designed to help clients and practitioners collaborate on specific, measurable, and achievable goals. It is designed to be brief (typically, 8–12 sessions) and can be used with individuals, couples, families, and groups in a wide variety of social work practice contexts. With nearly 40 years of practice and research arguing for its effectiveness, task-centered practice can rightfully claim to be one of social work’s original “evidence-based practices,” though the relative paucity of research on its effectiveness in this decade suggests that the approach itself may have become increasingly integrated into other brief social work technologies.

Subjects

  • Clinical and Direct Practice
  • Macro Practice
  • Research and Evidence-Based Practice

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