Crossing Boundaries and Developing Alliances Through Group Work

by Hopmeyer; Estelle

• ISBN13: 9780789018502
• ISBN10: 0789018500
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2003-08-13
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Knock down cultural walls to build a foundation for successful social group work! Crossing Boundaries and Developing Alliances Through Group Work examines how changing technological, economic, and social conditions require social workers to create alliances to better serve their clients. The book addresses how the basic principles and techniques of group work can transcend geographical and cultural boundaries when dealing with issues such as HIV/AIDS, parenting, adoption, and sex offenses. A distinguished panel of practitioners, researchers, and educators details the strategies used to establish cultural and linguistic border crossings” that help reduce the limits social workers face. Crossing Boundaries and Developing Alliances Through Group Work addresses the multicultural dimension of social work and the benefits of a junction between research and intervention, including how the convergence with other fields of knowledge (music, drama, the arts, etc.) can contribute to a more effective intervention methodology. The book examines partnerships between research teams and agencies, field placements, collaborations between schools and practice settings, building a learning community, service education, the arrival of new technologies (teleconferencing, the Internet), reasserting group work fundamentals, and how mixing and matching” methodologies can produce a more effective intervention strategy. Topics examined in Crossing Boundaries and Developing Alliances Through Group Work include: working with AIDS patients in early recovery from substance abuse integrating group work with mutual aid to treat male sex offenders using teleconferencing groups with families involved in organ donation conducting group interventions with mentally ill parents working with families dealing with failed adoptions developing a mediating group for birth parent self-assessment and much more! Crossing Boundaries and Developing Alliances Through Group Work is an essential tool for dealing with cross-cultural conflicts. It's equally valuable as a professional guide for clinicians and therapists, policy developers, supervisors, and administrators, and as a textbook or supplemental text in courses dealing with clinical, international, and intercultural group work, advanced group work, support groups, and mental health services.

Table of Contents

About the Editors	ix
Contributors	xi
Acknowledgments	xv
Introduction. Beyond Our Frontiers: The Development of Alliances Through Group Work	1	(4)
Jocelyn Lindsay
Daniel Turcotte
Estelle Hopmeyer
Towards an International Development of Group Work: Establishing Cultural and Linguistic Border Crossings	5	(22)
Paul Taylor
Introduction	5	(3)
Internationalising Group Work	8	(6)
Arriving at the Group Work Frontier	14	(3)
The Cross-National Encounter	17	(2)
From ``Inter''- to ``Trans''-Cultural	19	(8)
Crossing Boundaries: Group Work with Persons with AIDS in Early Recovery from Substance Abuse	27	(26)
Lawrence Shulman
Literature Review	29	(3)
The Work	32	(3)
The Authority Theme	35	(2)
The Intimacy Theme: Helping Yourself by Helping Others	37	(14)
Conclusion	51	(2)
Where Has Real Group Work Gone? Reasserting the Fundamentals	53	(6)
David Ward
What Has Happened to Group Work?	54	(2)
How Should We Respond?	56	(3)
Group Field Consulting: Building a Learning Community	59	(16)
Ellen Sue Mesbur
Introduction	59	(1)
Development of Supervision and Field Instruction in Social Work	60	(4)
The Group Field-Consulting Model	64	(4)
Conclusions	68	(2)
Appendix: Field-Consulting Methodology and Outcomes	70	(5)
Night of the Tortured Souls: Integration of Group Therapy and Mutual Aid for Treated Male Sex Offenders	75	(24)
Dennis Kimberley
Louise Osmond
Integrating Continued Therapy with Supervised Mutual Aid	75	(4)
A Philosophy of Treating and Supporting the Treated	79	(4)
Group Practice in Integrating Therapy and Mutual Aid with Treated Sex Offenders	83	(11)
Conclusion	94	(5)
Pushing the Boundary and Coming Full Circle: A Contemporary Role for Social Group Work in Service Education	99	(16)
Joanne Gumpert
Sue Burrus
John M. Duffy
Literature Review	100	(4)
The Field Placement	104	(3)
Effects of the Group Work Intervention	107	(4)
Future Directions	111	(1)
Appendix: Levels of Transcendence Identified in Group Interaction	112	(3)
The Use of Teleconferencing Focus Groups with Families Involved in Organ Donation: Dealing with Sensitive Topics	115	(18)
Sandra Regan
Why Teleconferencing Focus Groups?	115	(2)
Dealing with Sensitive Topics	117	(2)
Reactivity in the Screener Questionnaire	119	(3)
Motivation of the Participants	122	(1)
Moderators' Self-Disclosure and Credibility	123	(3)
Group Members' Self-Disclosure	126	(1)
Normalisation of Emotions	127	(1)
Legitimisation of Participants' Comments	128	(1)
Building on Preparation and Beginning the Focus Group	129	(1)
Conclusion	130	(3)
Using Groups for Research and Action: The Asian Mothers' Support Project	133	(14)
Lorraine Gutierrez
Izumi Sakamoto
Tom Morson
The North Campus Outreach Project	134	(2)
A Program and a Process for Change	136	(3)
Programming	139	(1)
Survey and Program Data	140	(1)
Results	141	(1)
Synergy Through Groups	142	(2)
Summary	144	(3)
Families for Reunification: A Mediating Group Model for Birth Parent Self-Assessment	147	(20)
Michael W. Wagner
Partners in the Plan	147	(2)
Program Development	149	(3)
Program Design	152	(5)
Analysis	157	(4)
Conclusion	161	(1)
Appendix: Families for Reunification---Partners in the Plan, Final Assessment	162	(5)
Efficacy of Group Interventions with Seriously Mentally Ill Parents: A Literature Review	167	(26)
Gordon MacDonald
Introduction	167	(1)
Definition of a Group	168	(2)
The Population	170	(4)
Seriously Mentally III Parents and Group Intervention	174	(7)
Implications	181	(6)
Conclusion	187	(6)
Post--Legal Adoption Treatment Groups: Intervening with Families Who Experience Failed Adoptions	193	(16)
Karen V. Harper-Dorton
Introduction	193	(1)
Adoption Disruption/Dissolution: Definitions and Overview	194	(2)
Demographics of the Population Studied	196	(1)
The Importance of Post--Legal Adoption Intervention	197	(1)
Group Services	198	(1)
Program Design	199	(1)
Curriculum	199	(5)
Outcome and Follow-Up	204	(2)
Conclusions	206	(3)
Index	209