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Financial Social Work: Micro, Mezzo, and Macro Practice explores the intersection of financial behavior, emotions, and social work. Featuring a biopsychosocial perspective, it explores concepts such as money attitudes and beliefs, the link between emotions and financial behaviors, and chronic financial stress. The book elaborates on the implementation of financial social work at individual and organizational levels, addressing financial stress, trauma, and anxiety, and advocating for inclusive financial practices and policies.

This book is structured to systematically build student competence through theoretical foundations, application in practical settings, and case examples. With a focus on promoting financial resilience, it provides strategies to empower clients and foster healthy financial mindsets, while also dealing with the macro aspects of policy development and advocacy for economic equity. The text emphasizes the importance of cultural humility in financial social work and discusses innovations and future directions in the field.

Financial Social Work is suitable for graduate-level instruction, specifically for students pursuing their Master of Social Work degrees. It aligns well with courses such as advanced interventions in social work education and is intended for both specialized financial social work courses and broader social work curriculum elements, including macro social work practice, financial policy advocacy, and ethical practice.

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