Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Education. Joining together: Group theory and group skills. Populations covered include HIV-positive and AIDS patients, the homeless, and perpetrators and victims of sexual abuse and family violence.
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The life cycle framework is incorporated to demonstrate how to foster healing and empowering. This work examines how mutual aid groups help members of oppressed, vulnerable, and resilient groups regain control over their lives. Mutual aid groups, vulnerable and resilient populations, and the life cycle. Gitterman, Alex, and Lawrence Shulman, eds.
The book combines an overview of ten group theories and how to put these theories into practice while attending to multicultural issues. Corey engages the reader with personal anecdotes and case examples mixed with good didactic material. This is a popular textbook for a graduate-level course in group counseling although not from a social work perspective. Shulman 2009 is appropriate for promoting a generalist approach to group work.Ĭorey, Gerald. Northen and Kurland 2001 is a newer edition of the classic 1969 text. Gitterman and Shulman 2005 uses case material to illustrate group work skills and developmental issues in mutual aid groups. Although all have their strengths, one good choice for its breadth and attention to fundamentals is Toseland and Rivas 2009. Reid 1997 and Yalom and Leszcz 2005 offer clinical perspectives with an emphasis on group psychotherapy, and the unique perspective in Johnson and Johnson 2009 incorporates findings from group dynamics into teaching about groups. All but Corey 2008, Johnson and Johnson 2009, and Yalom and Leszcz 2005 are written from a social work perspective. Included here is a selection of recent books with a range of perspectives that are generally well-regarded and widely used and one classic early text ( Wilson and Ryland 1949). In general textbooks provide a good overview of the fundamentals of group work. The best source for an overview of the fundamentals of group work is the section Textbooks.
However, a section is included that is specifically related to task groups, whose primary purpose is to accomplish tasks related to the needs of persons outside of the group. Most of the references are to topics related to treatment groups, that is, groups whose primary purpose is to meet the socioemotional needs of its members, usually done in small groups consisting of up to fifteen group members. In addition the emphasis is on works published after 1995, though classics or older but unique publications are included. As a general overview, this bibliography includes a wide range of topics, but the depth of citations within areas is limited to notable publications and those primarily related to social work with groups. Group work can be defined as “goal-directed activity with small treatment and task groups aimed at meeting socioemotional needs and accomplishing tasks” (see Textbooks, Toseland and Rivas 2009, p.
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