Empowerment Series: Social Work with Groups: Comprehensive Practice and Self-Care

✍ Scribed by Charles Zastrow, Sarah L. Hessenauer

• Publisher: Cengage Learning
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 627
• Edition: 10
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Build effective group leadership skills with the experiential and self-evaluation exercises in SOCIAL WORK WITH GROUPS. The authors discuss topics that are central to understanding group leadership: stages of groups, group dynamics, verbal and nonverbal communication, types of groups, and diversity in groups. With support from this book, your classroom becomes a "lab" where you can experience what it's like to work in and lead many kinds of groups. This edition also emphasizes self-care -- with 30 strategies that you can use to improve your, and your clients', well-being.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Contents
Preface
About the Authors
Chapter 1 Groups: Types and Stages of Development
Chapter 2 Social Group Work and Social Work Practice
Chapter 3 Group Dynamics: Leadership
Chapter 4 Group Dynamics: Goals and Norms
Chapter 5 Verbal and Nonverbal Communication
Chapter 6 Task Groups
Chapter 7 Working with Diverse Groups
Chapter 8 Self-Help Groups
Chapter 9 Social Work with Families
Chapter 10 Organizations, Communities, and Groups
Chapter 11 Educational Groups: With a Focus on Self-Care
Chapter 12 Treatment Groups
Chapter 13 Treatment Groups with Diverse and Vulnerable Populations
Chapter 14 Termination and Evaluation of a Group
Appendix 1 Group Treatment Theories Resource Manual (GTTRM)
Appendix 2 Answers to Group Exercises D–F in Chapter 6
Notes
Index