Social Work with Groups: Using the Class as a Group Leadership Laboratory (The Nelson-Hall series in social work) - Hardcover

Zastrow, Charles

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0830414436 ISBN 13: 9780830414437

Publisher: Nelson-Hall, Inc, 1999

Synopsis

This edition continues to provide students with the most comprehensive and readable introduction to leading groups. The text is completely updated and includes new chapters on communities and groups; feminist intervention in groups; and the mandated content in the revised curriculum policy statements of the Council on Social Work Education. New material is presented on the Tuckman and bales models of group development; the RAP framework for leading multiracial groups; conflict resolution strategies; and professional boundaries with clients. Each chapter is designed to facilitate learning through the laboratory approach. First, the goals of the chapter are stated and then theoretical material is presented on how to achieve these goals. Next, group exercises that illustrate key concepts are explained and performed, providing students with the skills needed to reach the chapter's goals. Students are encouraged to conduct class sessions and lead classroom exercises.

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Review

1. Groups: Types and Stages of Development. 2. Social Group Work and Social Work Practice. 3. Group Dynamics: Leadership. 4. Group Dynamics: Goals and Norms. 5. Verbal and Nonverbal Communication. 6. Task Groups. 7. Working with Diverse Groups. 8. Self-Help Groups. 9. Social Work with Families. 10. Organizations, Communities, and Groups. 11. Educational Groups: Stress Management and Time Management as Examples. 12. Treatment Groups. 13. Termination and Evaluation of a Group. Appendix A: Group Treatment Theories Resource Manual. Module 1. Rational Therapy in Groups. Module 2. Behavior Therapy in Groups. Module 3. Reality Therapy in Groups. Appendix B: Answers to Group Exercises D-F in Chapter 6.

About the Author

Charles Zastrow, MSW, Ph.D., is Professor Emeritus in Social Work at the University of Wisconsin–Whitewater, where he chaired the Social Work Department for six years. He has also been the Assistant Director and Professor in the Social Work Program at George Williams College in Williams Bay, Wisconsin. A Licensed Clinical Social Worker in the state of Wisconsin, Dr. Zastrow has worked as a practitioner for various agencies, chaired social work accreditation site visit teams for the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE), and served on the Commission on Accreditation of CSWE. He also was a member of the BPD board. A leader in social work education and a bestselling author, Dr. Zastrow has written more than 45 articles in professional journals as well as nine books, including four other textbooks: GENERALIST SOCIAL WORK PRACTICE, SOCIAL WORK WITH GROUPS, SOCIAL PROBLEMS: ISSUES AND SOLUTIONS, and UNDERSTANDING HUMAN BEHAVIOR AND THE SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT (with Dr. Karen Kirst-Ashman).

Edition details

• Publisher: Nelson-Hall, Inc
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0830414436
• ISBN 13: 9780830414437
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 611