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The Skills of Helping Individuals, Families, Groups, and Communities
ISBN: 9780495509639 | 0495509639
Edition: 6thFormat: Hardcover
Publisher: Cengage Learning
Pub. Date: 2/11/2008
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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 e... MORE
| 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 | |
| Socia... MORE | |
| 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 | |
| Table of Contents provided by Publisher. All Rights Reserved. |
