Brooks/Cole Empowerment Series: Social Work with Groups: A Comprehensive Worktext / Edition 9

by Charles Zastrow

Overview

Using a plentiful selection of skill-building and self-evaluation exercises, author Charles Zastrow's comprehensive, workbook-style resource promotes his philosophy that you can learn group leadership skills best by practicing them in class. In this ninth edition of SOCIAL WORK WITH GROUPS: A COMPREHENSIVE WORKBOOK, Zastrow discusses topics that are central to a successful understanding of group leadership: stages of groups, group dynamics, verbal and nonverbal communication, types of groups, and diversity in groups. With support from this book, your classroom will become a "lab" where you can experience what it's like to work in and lead many kinds of groups. Updated throughout with timely new topics and firsthand accounts from experienced social group work professionals, this edition also includes a new chapter on treatment groups with diverse and vulnerable populations. Attention CourseMate user: Cengage support for existing users of CourseMate will end of 8/1/2020.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781285746401
Publisher:	Cengage Learning
Publication date:	01/01/2014
Edition description:	Older Edition
Pages:	672
Product dimensions:	8.40(w) x 10.70(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Charles Zastrow, M.S.W., Ph.D., is professor emeritus in social work at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, where he chaired the social work department for six years. He has also been the assistant director and professor in the social work program at George Williams College in Williams Bay, Wisconsin. He has worked as a practitioner in a variety of public and private social welfare agencies and has chaired 28 social work accreditation site visit teams for the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE). Dr. Zastrow has served two terms as a commissioner on the Commission on Accreditation of CSWE. He has also been a board member of the Association of Baccalaureate Social Work Program Directors, Inc. (BPD). In addition, Dr. Zastrow has chaired the Commission on Educational Policy of CSWE. He is a licensed clinical social worker in the state of Wisconsin.

Table of Contents

1. Groups: Types and Stages of Development. 2. Social Group Work and Social Work Practice. 3. Group Dynamics: Leadership. 4. Group Dynamics: Goals and Norms. 5. Verbal and Nonverbal Communication. 6. Task Groups. 7. Working with Diverse Groups. 8. Self-Help Groups. 9. Social Work with Families. 10. Organizations, Communities, and Groups. 11. Educational Groups: Stress Management and Time Management as Examples. 12. Treatment Groups. 13. Treatment Groups with Diverse and Vulnerable Populations. 14. Termination and Evaluation of a Group. Appendix A: Group Treatment Theories Resource Manual. Module 1. Rational Therapy in Groups. Module 2. Behavior Therapy in Groups. Module 3. Reality Therapy in Groups. Module 4. Dialectical Behavior Therapy in Groups. Appendix B: Answers to Group Exercises D-F in Chapter 6.

Editorial Reviews

"A relevant text particularly for Bachelor level students. The content is precise and makes the point in a way that promotes understanding."- Brenda Armstrong Clark, Benedict College

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