The Skills of Helping Individuals, Families, Groups, and Communities

by Shulman, Lawrence

• ISBN13: 9780495509639
• ISBN10: 0495509639
• Edition: 6th
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-02-11
• Publisher: Brooks Cole

Summary

Lawrence Shulman's THE SKILLS OF HELPING INDIVIDUALS, FAMILIES, GROUPS, AND COMMUNITIES WITH CD, 6e, demonstrates how common elements, core processes, and skills exist across all stages of helping and throughout work with all populations--including individuals, families, groups, and communities. It defines, illustrates, and teaches helping skills and provides manageable models for understanding them. The text also looks at the underlying process and its associated set of core skills. Two valuable CD-ROMs are available to enhance your learning experience. THE INTERACTIVE SKILLS OF HELPING CD-ROM and WORKSHOP CD-ROM FOR THE SKILLS OF HELPING illustrate the text's core skills and feature video excerpts of an interactive workshop led by Dr. Shulman. Examples depict social workers in action and directly connect theory and research to the realities of working with clients.

Table of Contents

Introduction and Underlying Assumptions

A Model of the Helping Process

An Interactional Approach to Helping

Human Behavior and the Social Environment

Social Work with Individuals

The Preliminary Phase of Work

Beginnings and the Contracting Skills

Skills in the Work Phase

Endings and Transitions

Social Work with Families

The Preliminary and Beginning Phases in Family Practice

The Middle and Ending Phases in Family Practice

Variations in Family Practice

Social Work with Groups

The Preliminary Phase in Group Practice: The Group as a Mutual-Aid System

The Beginning Phase in the Group

The Work Phase in the Group

Working with the Individual and the Group

Endings and Transitions with Groups

Social Work with the Second Client: The Agency System, the Community and Social Policy Practice

Professional Impact and Helping Clients Negotiate the System

Social Work Practice in the Community

Macro Social Work Practice and Social Policy Change

Practice Models and Evidenced-Based Practice

Some Additional Social Work Perspectives and Evidenced-Based Practice

The Impact on Practice of Policy, Ethics and Legislation

The Impact of Agency Culture, Ethics, Legislation and Evaluation

Glossary

References

Index of Case Examples

Name Index

Subject Index

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