Making Joyful Noise: The Art, Science, and Soul of Group Work

by Malekoff; Andrew

• ISBN13: 9780789032379
• ISBN10: 0789032376
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-10-04
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This diverse collection of articles by group work professionals who work in the classroom and in the field captures not only the art and science of social work but also its soul, highlighting practice, teaching, and writing ideas that promote the power of group work-and the people who do it. Making Joyful Noise reinforces the value and uniqueness of group work as a positive, optimistic, empowering, and affirming way of working with people. The articles presented here cover a wide range of age groups, populations, and settings and include examples on the use of activity and discussion in groups: a poetry club for children, the meaning of camp for preadolescents, a boxing group for adolescents who live in the inner city, self-defense classes for adults, and caregiver support for the elderly.

Table of Contents

About the Authors	xvii
Foreword	xxi
Helen E. Northen
Preface	xxv
Making Joyful Noise: Presenting, Promoting, and Portraying Group Work to and for the Profession	1	(16)
Roselle Kurland
Robert Salmon
The Essential Power of Group Work	17	(16)
Kris Drumm
The Art, Science, Heart, and Ethics of Social Group Work: Lessons from a Great Teacher	33	(14)
Dominique Moyse Steinberg
On Being Bold, Valuing Process, and Cultivating Collegiality	47	(10)
Keren Ludwig
Priska Imberti
Putting Ideas to Paper: A Guideline for Practitioners (and Others) Who Wish to Write for Publication	57	(16)
Andrew Malekoff
Education for the Group Worker's Reality: The Special Qualities and World View of Those Drawn to Work with Groups	73	(18)
Roselle Kurland
Robert Salmon
Organizational Insight and the Education of Advanced Group Work Practitioners	91	(14)
Harriet Goodman
Purpose: A Misunderstood and Misused Keystone of Group Work Practice	105	(16)
Roselle Kurland
Robert Salmon
"What Could Happen and What Couldn't Happen": A Poetry Club for Kids	121	(12)
Andrew Malekoff
The Meaning of Camp and Social Group Work Principles	133	(16)
Lainey Collins
Keep It in the Ring: Using Boxing in Social Group Work with High-Risk and Offender Youth to Reduce Violence	149	(26)
Whitney Wright
You Don't Always Have to Pick Up Your Mess Right Away: How Being Messy Can Be Really Neat!	175	(20)
Vicki Hallas
Group Work Gets Physical: Self-Defense Class and Social Work	195	(22)
Sarah Stevenson
I'm Gone When You're Gone: How a Group Can Survive When Its Leader Takes a Leave of Absence	217	(18)
Joanna Pudil
A Worker's Personal Grief and Its Impact on Processing a Group's Termination	235	(8)
Camille P. Roman
Caregiver Support Groups: Finding Common Ground	243	(16)
Helene Ebenstein
Group Bereavement Support for Spouses Who Are Grieving the Loss of a Partner to Cancer	259	(20)
Rachel M. Schneider
Retrospective Book Review: Teaching a Methods Course in Social Work with Groups	279	(8)
Mary C. Bitel
Index	287