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Hone your group work skills to make sessions even more meaningful!Social Work with Groups: Mining the Gold examines a wide array of varieties of social group work practice, from corrections through empowerment and international issues. It explores ways to deal with youth violence (following the shootings at Columbine High School), issues of social exclusion, empowerment practice, groups in correctional settings, group work practice with seniors, gender diversity, multicultural groups, teleconferencing groups, and education for social work group practice. Every chapter author who contributed to this timely and important volume reflects the "gold" to be mined in the use of groups in social work. Linda Hutton shares her first-hand experience of working with chronically paranoid schizophrenic clients who are also chemically addicted. Marshall Rubin and Carol J. Hinote explore ways of working creatively with different populations--Rubin confronts the use of structured program designs and Hinote describes the challenge of being a woman worker with a group of mentally ill men. Paul Abels and Sonia Leib Abels examine the use of narratives in social work with groups. Beverly Ryan and Patty Crawford discuss the creation of support groups for elderly people dealing with loss, and Jean East, Susan Manning, and Ruth J. Parsons explore ways for group work to advance the social work empowerment agenda.Social Work with Groups also explores case studies of:
a school-based project to prevent violence
a European group work plan to fight social exclusion in a multicultural environment
a prison-based group work program
ways to use gender diversity to enrich the group experienceSocial Work with Groups brings you insightful commentary from the people who are developing cutting-edge programs and expanding the boundaries of group work. No social worker who wants to function most effectively in a group setting should be without it!
Contents
About the Editors
Contributors
Preface
Introduction
Plenary Sessions
Symposium Papers
PART I: PLENARY SESSIONS
Chapter 1. Groupwork in Europe: Tools to Combat Social Exclusion in a Multicultural Environment
Introduction
Education and Transformation
Background of the European Seminar
Practice Principles
Conceptualizing: The Process
Creating Real Dialogue
Deconstructing Conflict
The Group Takes Ownership
Evaluation and Outcome
Application of the Method in Other Contexts
Chapter 2. Seeking Alternatives to Violence: A School-Based Violence Prevention Project
Overview of School Violence
Overview of Seeking Alternative Solutions to Violence Program
Program Model and Methodologies
Projected Outcomes
Chapter 3. Social Work Empowerment Agenda and Group Work: A Workshop
Overview
Part I: Empowerment
Part II: Group Work and Empowerment Supports and Challenges
Conclusion
PART II: SYMPOSIUM PRESENTATIONS
Chapter 4. Narrative Social Work with Groups: Just in Time
The Narrative Practice Approach
The Need to Question Privileged Positions
Our Changing Perception of Time
Effects of Societal Change on Group Practice
Narrative Practice As Response to Societal Change
Specific Narrative Strategies and Results
Mutual Aid
The AASWG Group Work Standards
Conclusion
Chapter 5. Citizens, Victims, and Offenders Restoring Justice: A Prison-Based Group Work Program Bridging the Divide
Selection and Induction of Participants
Intervention Model
Session Content
Group Process Themes
Challenges to the Development of Group Cohesion
Recommendations and Conclusions
Chapter 6. Gender Diversity: A Powerful Tool for Enriching Group Experience
Diversity in Group
Differential Responses and Their Implications for Practice
Group Awareness of Gender Diversity
Conclusion
Chapter 7. Group Work with Minority Mentally Ill Men: The Role of the Woman Worker
The Groups' Rationale and Purpose
The Role of the Woman Worker in Leading Men's Groups
The Role of the White Worker in Leading Nonwhite Groups
Men's Resistance to Discussing Certain Topics in Groups
Supervision of Women Workers Who Lead Men's Groups
Conclusion: Implications for Practice
Chapter 8. Building Bridges Over Troubled Waters: A Bridging Model for Teleconferencing Group Counseling
Introduction
Teleconferencing Bridging Model (TBM)
Theme-Centred Interactional Model
Interactional Mutual Aid Model
Structure of the Teleconferencing Bridging Model
Conclusion
Chapter 9. Groupworkers in the Making: A Simulation for Teaching Social Groupwork
Simulation As a Classroom Learning Tool
Group Simulation Example
Final Reflections on Group Simulation
Appendix: Group Member Profiles
Chapter 10. Creating Loss Support Groups for the Elderly
Seeing the Need
Planning the Sessions
Group Response and Evaluation
Chapter 11. Making Curriculum Purposeful in Group Work with Persons with Severe Mental Illnesses
Curriculum-Driven Practice and the Social Group Work Vacuum in Psychosocial Rehabilitation Agencies
Practice Theory Useful in Minimizing Curriculum-Driven Practice
Practice Problems Associated with Curriculum-Driven Groups
Conclusion
Chapter 12. Reflecting Extremes of Human Experience in the Group: Work with Chemically Addicted Chronic Paranoid Schizophrenic Clients
The Beginning
The Engagement
The Group Process
Mutual Aid
Behavior in the Group
The Ending
Index
Reference Notes Included
