Similar to the last approach, the generalist practice approach believes that all social workers should have a grounding in all social work practices. Influenced by social systems theory, this approach believes that every social worker should be flexible and versatile because client problems are complex and affect the client in more than one way (Sheafor et al., 2012, p. 43). Furthermore there were two key components that all social workers, according to this approach, should have knowledge in all practices to help their clients efficiently and instead of dragging clients into the methods, create the method on the client. Second, understanding the person-environment relationship and being able to intervene in more than one system (Sheafor et al., 2012, p. 44). The generalist approach also follows a model that shows the relationship between education and the knowledge needed for a social worker to be good at their job. These levels are generic foundations, generalist perspective, beginning generalist, and advanced generalist (Sheafor et al., 2012, p. 44). This is similar to the special practice approach where everyone learns the same fundamentals of skills, ethics, values, etc. of social work and as a social worker advances in their education and training, they are more