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Tables of Contents for Social Work With Groups
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
About the Editors
ix
Contributors
xi
Preface
xv
Introduction
1
1
Plenary Sessions
2
1
Symposium Presentations
3
6
PART I: PLENARY SESSIONS
Groupwork in Europe: Tools to Combat Social Exclusion in a Multicultural Environment
9
22
Introduction
9
1
Education and Transformation
10
2
Background of the European Seminar
12
1
Practice Principles
13
3
Conceptualizing: The Process
16
3
Creating Real Dialogue
19
5
Deconstructing Conflict
24
1
The Group Takes Ownership
24
2
Evaluation and Outcome
26
1
Application of the Method in Other Contexts
27
4
Seeking Alternatives to Violence: A School-Based Violence Prevention Project
31
10
Overview of School Violence
32
1
Overview of Seeking Alternative Solutions to Violence Program
33
2
Program Model and Methodologies
35
3
Projected Outcomes
38
3
Social Work Empowerment Agenda and Group Work: A Workshop
41
16
Overview
41
1
Empowerment
41
2
Group Work and Empowerment Supports and Challenges
43
5
Conclusion
48
9
PART II: SYMPOSIUM PRESENTATIONS
Narrative Social Work with Groups: Just in Time
57
18
The Narrative Practice Approach
57
1
The Need to Question Privileged Positions
58
1
Our Changing Perception of Time
59
1
Effects of Societal Change on Group Practice
60
1
Narrative Practice As Response to Societal Change
61
2
Specific Narrative Strategies and Results
63
2
Mutual Aid
65
4
The AASWG Group Work Standards
69
2
Conclusion
71
4
Citizens, Victims, and Offenders Restoring Justice: A Prison-Based Group Work Program Bridging the Divide
75
14
Selection and Induction of Participants
76
1
Intervention Model
77
2
Session Content
79
1
Group Process Themes
80
5
Challenges to the Development of Group Cohesion
85
1
Recommendations and Conclusions
86
3
Gender Diversity: A Powerful Tool for Enriching Group Experience
89
16
Diversity in Group
89
2
Differential Responses and Their Implications for Practice
91
8
Group Awareness of Gender Diversity
99
1
Conclusion
100
5
Group Work with Minority Mentally III Men: The Role of the Woman Worker
105
14
The Groups' Rationale and Purpose
106
1
The Role of the Woman Worker in Leading Men's Groups
107
2
The Role of the White Worker in Leading Nonwhite Groups
109
2
Men's Resistance to Discussing Certain Topics in Groups
111
4
Supervision of Women Workers Who Lead Men's Groups
115
2
Conclusion: Implications for Practice
117
2
Building Bridges Over Troubled Waters: A Bridging Model for Teleconferencing Group Counselling
119
12
Introduction
119
1
Teleconferencing Bridging Model (TBM)
120
2
Theme-Centred Interactional Model
122
2
Interactional Mutual Aid Model
124
3
Structure of the Teleconferencing Bridging Model
127
2
Conclusion
129
2
Groupworkers in the Making: A Simulation for Teaching Social Groupwork
131
20
Simulation As a Classroom Learning Tool
131
2
Group Simulation Example
133
13
Final Reflections on Group Simulation
146
1
Appendix: Group Member Profiles
147
4
Creating Loss Support Groups for the Elderly
151
12
Seeing the Need
153
2
Planning the Sessions
155
4
Group Response and Evaluation
159
4
Making Curriculum Purposeful in Group Work with Persons with Severe Mental Illnesses
163
24
Curriculum-Driven Practice and the Social Group Work Vacuum in Psychosocial Rehabilitation Agencies
164
2
Practice Theory Useful in Minimizing Curriculum-Driven Practice
166
6
Practice Problems Associated with Curriculum-Driven Groups
172
12
Conclusion
184
3
Reflecting Extremes of Human Experience in the Group: Work with Chemically Addicted Chronic Paranoid Schizophrenic Clients
187
16
The Beginning
188
1
The Engagement
189
1
The Group Process
190
2
Mutual Aid
192
2
Behavior in the Group
194
4
The Ending
198
5
Index
203