Stories Celebrating Group Work : It's Not Always Easy to Sit on Your Mouth

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Stories Celebrating Group Work : It's Not Always Easy to Sit on Your Mouth

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  • 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版/ページ数 216 p.
  • 言語 ENG
  • 商品コード 9780789017468
  • DDC分類 361.4

Full Description

Stories Celebrating Group Work: It's Not Always Easy to Sit on Your Mouth celebrates the 25th anniversary of the esteemed journal Social Work with Groups with a collection of 21 narratives from group work practitioners and educators. These highly personal stories from a range of social workersyoung and old, famous and not so famousreflect each author's development and experience, serving as both instruction and inspiration for practitioners and educators. This unique collectionby turns humorous, moving, profound, and down-to-earthgets to the heart of what it means to be a member of the social work community.

Each chapter of Stories Celebrating Group Work draws on its contributor's area of expertise and interest in a specific topic, chronicling the development of the author's understanding, appreciation, and skill. Authors address the everyday concerns of social work professionals, such as maximizing mutual aid, promoting positive norms, maintaining authority in group work, managing conflict, dealing with taboo subjects, building a group work culture in a human services organization, working with a co-leader, tapping the strengths of group members, and addressing social change. The individual stories of working with men, women, and children suffering through abuse, homelessness, addiction, and teenage pregnancy, in places as diverse as East Harlem, Maine, Canada, Nebraska, Long Island, Haiti, Uruguay, help form a collegial spirit as group workers gain insight from the theory and practice of those who went before.

The personal stories you'll find in Stories Celebrating Group Work include:

How I Became a Social Worker
The Power of Group Work with Kids
How the Relational Model of Group Work Developed
My Love Affair with Stages of Group Development
But I Want to Do a Real Group
Racial Difference and Human Commonality: The Worker-Client Relationship
and many more!

Stories Celebrating Group Work: It's Not Always Easy to Sit on Your Mouth is a one-of-a-kind collection of stories, at once entertaining and educational. It's an essential read for beginning and seasoned human services practitioners, and educators involved with, or interested in, working with groups.

Contents

About the Contributors
Introduction
Memories of Social Work with Groups: Volume 1 (1978) Through Volume 14 (1991)
A Tale of Transformation: How I Became a Group Worker
A Rewarding Group Worker's Journey
The Magic of Mutual Aid
I Hate Conflict, But . . .
Bell Choir, Somersaults, and Cucumber Sandwiches: A Journey in Understanding the Importance of Positive Group Norms
Grizzly Empathy
It Is Not Always Easy to Sit on Your Mouth
Will the Real Healer Please Take a Bow
The Power of Group Work with Kids: Lessons Learned
If Only They Were Adults My Job Would Be Easier
Pitfalls, Pratfalls, Shortfalls and Windfalls: Reflections of Forming and Being Formed by Groups
But I Want to Do a Real Group: A Personal Journey from Snubbing to Loving to Theorizing to Demanding Activity-Based Group Work
Hidden Treasure Under the Rabi Tree: A Group Worker's Journey from Haiti to the US
Navigating in Groups . . . Experiencing the Cultural as Political
Learning to Talk About Taboo Subjects: A Lifelong Professional Challenge
My Love Affair with Stages of Group Development
Process of an Idea-How the Relational Model of Group Work Developed
Group Work Is All Wet* (*Don't Read Article Until an Hour After Eating)
Adventures in Co-Leadership in Social Group Work Practice
Creating a Group Work Culture in a Children's Mental Health Agency: A Professional Memoir
Index
Reference Notes Included