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Skills for Direct Practice in Social Work
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The Structural Approach to Direct Practice in Social Work
This classic text introduces students to the structural approach of social work practice, which assumes that many clients' problems arise from harmful social forces. By focusing on the construction of such realities as poverty, racism, and domestic violence, the structural approach counters the focus on individual change that is so common in our age of managed care and corporatization. For this edition Gale Goldberg Wood and Carol T. Tully have recast the text from the perspective of contemporary social constructionism without altering its main message and organization. They have added six new chapters, covering ethics, the role of the social worker as therapist and community organizer, lear...
Teaching Secrets
Teachers and student teachers in social work will gain valuable insight into the artistry that makes truly great teaching from the accounts found in this new book. Master teachers examine the processes they use in the classroom and present them in a format that facilitates the practical application of their ideas. The teaching methods recounted here emphasize the learners as the most important component of the teaching/learning experience and demonstrate techniques to enliven and enhance the reader’s own teaching methods. This vital book focuses on teaching “technologies,” defined as bodies of knowledge or skills ordered for use, that are comprised of techniques or systematic procedure...
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From Prevention to Wellness Through Group Work
Offering some of the most advanced thinking and practice in the arena of social work with groups, From Prevention to Wellness Through Group Work synthesizes the discussions and findings from the Annual Symposium of the Association for the Advancement of Social Work with Groups (AASWG). Gathered here are different ideas, techniques, and research (with a focus on prevention) for group work with seniors, adults, teens, and children. With a mix of authors from social work academia and practice, this book gives you groundbreaking theoretical pieces as well as emerging skills and techniques in group work. If you attended the conference you will refer to this book as a guide to the information pres...
The Use of Group Services in Permanency Planning for Children
This important sourcebook examines the latest developments in the use of social group work in establishing out-of-home children in permanent homes in an age of federal cutbacks.
A Quarter Century of Classics (1978-2004)
A Quarter Century of Classics(1978-2004) presents the most compelling articles published in Social Work with Groups since the journal's inception in 1978. Culled from more than 100 issues, the book captures the heart and spirit of group work and offers teachers and practitioners a solid foundation for group work theory and practice. This best-of-the-best collection includes seminal articles on group developmental theory, the use of activities in group work, group work with vulnerable populations, differentiating group work from case work in a group, and social action methods.
Roots and New Frontiers in Social Group Work
This exciting book captures the rich heritage of social group work and links the origin of social group work to its present and future frontiers. The first 100 years of social group work are celebrated in this volume as social workers address a wide range and diversity of group work, practice, theory, research, and education, with information on health and mental health institutions, substance abuse programs, rehabilitation centers, the correctional system, family service agencies, nursing homes, and other specialized areas including industry, child and spouse abuse, and incest. Roots and New Frontiers in Social Group Work consists of selected proceedings from the Seventh Consecutive Symposium of the Committee for the Advancement of Social Work With Groups sponsored by Rutgers University School of Social Work.
The Empowerment Approach to Social Work Practice
First published in 1994, this book was hailed as a cutting-edge, theory-driven report from the front-line trenches in the battle for social justice. Both clinical and community oriented and written from a global perspective, it presents clients speaking for themselves alongside reports of prominent social work educators. This new edition puts greater emphasis on "how-to" skills in working with people toward their own empowerment and stresses multiculturalism. A new chapter identifies worldwide issues of oppression such as abuse of women and children and neglect of the mentally ill.
