Basic Groupwork is a simple, practical guide to the processes of groupwork. This new edition has been extensively updated and revised to reflect the changes which have taken place in society and social behaviour since it was first published in 1978, but in essence it remains an accessible and friendly text for the novice practitioner.In logical sequence the book follows the progress of one group from inception to close and exposes how groups work. Basic group processes explained include: how individuals bring their personal habitual responses to situations into a group how group constraints enhance or restrain group behaviour and achievement how a group is affected by the way in which it has originated how leadership and membership roles interact. Basic Groupwork provides students with a sound and solid basis for any kind of groupwork, in any context.

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Product Description: The Christmas season brings many wonderful traditions, but the music of the season remains the highlight. And sharing this music with someone else can become a tradition of its own. Melody Bober has arranged some of her favorite carols for one piano, four hands...read more

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Product Description: The author is one of the best-respected individuals in this field; he has published over 50 journal articles, most of them dealing with group work, and is the co-author of several other books. This new edition incorporates more feminist theory and diversity issues throughout the book...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

In the wake of a tragic accident that takes the lives of her husband and unborn child, Karin Seaton learns that her baby is still alive and challenges the dangerous forces that have stolen him away. Original.

Product Description: This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process...read more

Product Description: This issue examines service learning-the emerging form of higher education bringing together students, teachers, and community partners in ways that foster the student's responsible citizenship and promotes a lifelong involvement in civic and social issues...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Focusing on how groupwork can be learnt and taught, the authors of this accessible and lively book consider what is essential in effective work with groups. They develop a practice model which is applicable to a wide range of approaches and actively promotes anti-oppressive groupwork...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: School psychologists, counselors, and educators in the K-12 setting face the daunting responsibility of finding balance between mandated testing, students’ mental-health concerns, and additional academic help for at-risk students...read more

Product Description: Firmly based in social science literature and research, this basic practice text provides students with a good practical model of group growth and development that is easily comprehended and applied. The second edition is organized, as was the original, around the concept of skill as knowledge in action, with four dimensions of social work knowledge about groups and people in groups interacting and intersecting to dictate worker action to be taken...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

This work gives practical approaches for practitioners working with the elderly, focusing on GSE - an interactive, multi-modal group programme as an affective method of dealing with core issues of isolation and reduced social networks. It gives specific deatils on how to design, implement and monitor progress for various types of group modalities. Intervention strategies such as reminiscence, spirituality, music therapy, phototherapy and bibliotherapy are utilized throughout.

Product Description: In Group Work the authors examine what makes humanistic groups unique. Centred on the practitioner's use of self and based on dual objectives - the development of the democratic mutual aid system and the actualization of purpose - humanistic groups encourage growth, development and independence...read more

Product Description: Thorough, hands-on guidance for conducting group work in nonprofit, public, and for-profit agency settings. Because it improves access, is cost-effective, and can be modified to conform to evidence-based practice, group work has become the treatment approach of choice in a broad range of human service agencies...read more

Product Description: Get a wealth of information about the theory and practice of social work with older adults, their families, and their caregivers!Although there is a considerable amount of writing on both group work and social work with the elderly, there is surprisingly little about applying this practice method to this specific age group...read more