Mutual Aid Groups, Vulnerable Populations, and the Life Cycle

by Gitterman, Alex; Shulman, Lawrence

• ISBN13: 9780231082884
• ISBN10: 0231082886
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1994-04-01
• Publisher: Columbia Univ Pr

Summary

Using the life cycle as a framework, this revised edition inquires into the healing and empowering process of mutual aid groups. The authors cover topics including the fundamentals of the mutual aid process, suggestions for overcoming obstacles in the process, the institutional benefits of group service, and specific clinical examples of mutual aid groups. New chapters in this second edition include discussions of HIV-positive and AIDS patients, the homeless, and perpetrators and victims of sexual abuse and family violence. Mutual Aid Groups is replete with group practice illustrations that students and professionals will find essential

Table of Contents

Contributing Authors
Preface
The Life Model, Mutual Aid, Oppression, and the Mediating Function	p. 3
Group Work Method	p. 29
Developing a New Group Service: Strategies and Skills	p. 59
The Lost and Found Group: Group Work and Bereaved Children	p. 81
Feelings of Shame: Siblings of Handicapped Children	p. 97
In Double Jeopardy: Preadolescents in the Inner City	p. 119
"Listen to Us!" Young Adolescents in Urban Schools	p. 151
Sharing the Hurt: Adolescents in a Residential Setting	p. 163
No One Is Alone: Groups During the AIDS Pandemic	p. 185
Talking Like "Real People": The "Straight Ahead" Prison Group	p. 199
Sharing the Secrets: Women's Groups for Sexual Abuse Survivors	p. 215
Speaking the Unspoken: Parents of Sexually Victimized Children	p. 239
Confronting Responsibility: Men Who Batter Their Wives	p. 257
Agents of Change: A Group of Women in a Shelter	p. 273
No Place to Go: Homeless Women	p. 297
Getting Connected: Institutionalized Schizophrenic Women	p. 315
Coping with a Nightmare: Hispanic Parents of Children with Cancer	p. 335
Healing the Hurts: Single Parents	p. 349
Dealing with the Death of a Group Member: Visually Impaired Elderly	p. 367
The Fight Against Hopelessness and Despair: Institutionalized Aged	p. 385
The Concept of Mutual Aid	p. 413
Index	p. 431
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