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1 online resource (273 pages) |
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Cover; Social Work with Groups; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; About the Editors; Contributors; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Section I: Social Justice and Social Work with Groups; Chapter 1. Social Justice: A Global Perspective; Chapter 2. Social Justice and Social Work with Groups: Fragile- Handle with Care; Introduction: An Image of Fragility; Fragility and Injustice; Group Practice As Social Justice Practice; Conclusion: An Image of Practice; Chapter 3. The Meaning, Scope, and Context of the Concept of Social Justice in Social Work with Groups |
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Distributive JusticeProcedural Justice; Retributive Justice; Conclusion; Chapter 4. Current Innovations in Social Work with Groups to Address Issues of Social Justice; Examples of Innovative Practice; Barriers; Opportunities; What's to Be Done?; Section II: Social Justice in Theory for Social Work with Groups; Chapter 5. Group Work and Social Justice: Rhetoric or Action?; State of the Art; Historical Context; The Debate and Arguments; The Current Social Scene; Universality of Social Justice; Toward a Definition of Justice; Value Premises of Social Justice; Values in Conflict; Scapegoating |
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Transforming ImagesConclusion; Chapter 6. Social Group Work, Social Justice; The Meanings of Social Justice in Social Work; The Social Goals Model; Practice Examples; Summary; Chapter 7. Culturally Grounded Approaches to Social Justice Through Social Work with Groups; Introduction; Globalization, Social Justice, and Social Work; A Culturally Grounded Approach; Group Work; Chapter 8. Social Work with Groups, Mutual Aid, and Social Justice; Section III: Social Justice in the Practice of Social Work with Groups |
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Chapter 9. Meet Them in The Lab: Using Hip-Hop Music Therapy Groups with Adolescents in Residential SettingsThe Needs of Adolescents in Care; The Use of Group Members' Interests in Programming; Hip-Hop Culture; The Lab Group Work Program Model: Activity-Centered Therapy (ACT); Setting Up The Lab; Who Is in The Lab?; The Lab in Action; Conclusion; Chapter 10. Talking Circles: A Traditional Form of Group Work; Chapter 11. New Perspectives in Group Work for Working with Sexually Abused African-American Children; Child Sexual Abuse: Race, Culture, and Ethnicity |
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An Africentric Group Work Model for Working with African-American GirlsConclusion; Chapter 12. Worker Self-Disclosure in Group Work; Introduction; Defining Self-Disclosure; Social Group Work; Conclusions; Chapter 13. Meals Made Easy: A Group Program at a Food Bank for Parents of Young Children; Introduction; Setting and Methodology; Results; Discussion; Summary and Conclusions; Chapter 14. A Social Group Worker As a Resident in an Independent Living Facility; Introduction; Interest Groups; Support Groups; Discussion Groups; Task Groups; Service to the Community; Outcomes |
| Summary |
Help change the world by bringing ideas of social justice into your group work practice! Social workers who use hip-hop music to reach out to troubled adolescents. Practitioners who compare First Nations talking circles with social work practice with groups. A retired professor who transforms the way her fellow senior living center residents participate in their world. Fathers of children with spina bifida who help one another through an online discussion group. These and other examples you'll discover in Social Work with Groups: Social Justice Through Personal, Community, and Societa |
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Chapter 15. From Fragile to Wild: Group Work As the Transforming Element in Redressing Social Inequities for Older Women |
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Print version record |
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Social group work -- Congresses
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Social justice -- Congresses
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Social group work
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Social justice
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Conference papers and proceedings
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Mitchell, L
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Goodman, D
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Lang, N. C
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Mesbur, E. S
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| ISBN |
9781135421267 |
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1135421269 |
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