Advanced Gero Social Work Practice Guide
The Advanced Gero Social Work Practice Guide (Practice Guide) links the gero competencies to select 2008 EPAS practice behaviors common to all social work practice, to knowledge in aging for generalist practice, and to advanced gero knowledge and practice behaviors. The Practice Guide includes the EPAS Gero Curriculum Resource Examples: class exercises, assignments to measure student attainment of gero practice behaviors, and research articles providing evidence-based social work practice.
Several components of the Practice Guide may be viewed and downloaded through the CSWE Gero-Ed Center website:
EPAS Gero Curriculum Resource Examples
Supporting Documents
The Guidelines and Scales section of this Web page (click on the button in the left navigation bar) contains several documents intended to clarify the relationship between the 2008 CSWE EPAS and the gero competencies, in addition to the various gero competency scales and lists: