Social work with groups: expanding horizons

Social Work With Groups describes continuity and change in group work. It revisits the theoretical ideas of group work and group work topics of the past decade, focusing on the continuity of group work theory and practice. At the same time it emphasizes the need for change to more effectively work with deal with people in new groups in need--people with AIDS, gangs, persons in grief, and minorities, as well as groups always in need but now with new and additional needs--families, children, adolescents. This book deals with how to meet the needs of existing and emerging populations. I.

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Introduction; PLENARY SESSIONS; What Happened to Self-Determination?; The Rediscovery of Real-World Groups; Introduction; The Democratic Microcosm and the Bureaucratized Society; The Dialectical Relationship Between Cohesion and Conflict; Learning and Teaching About Real-World Groups; Confronting Human Finitude: Group Work with People with AIDS; Psychosocial Responses to AIDS; Relevant Theory; Discussion; SELECTED PAPERS; An AIDS Bereavement Support Group: One Model of Intervention in a Time of Crisis; Introduction.

AIDS BereavementGroup Structure; Group Issues; Countertransference Issues; Advantages and Disadvantages of Group Model; Social Work Practice with Groups in the Church Context: A Family Life Ministry Model in an Inner-City Church; The Church as a Context for Practice; The Community and Baptist Tabernacle; Family Life Ministry and Social Work with Groups; Conclusions; The Tasks and Skills of the Social Worker Across Stages of Group Development; Stage I: Pre-Affiliation; Stage II: Power and Control; Stage III: Intimacy; Stage IV: Differentiation; Stage V: Separation; Conclusion.

Group Work and the Environ…