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Informationen zum Autor Roselle Kurland, Andrew Malekoff Zusammenfassung Offers teachers and practitioners a foundation for group work theory and practice. This title includes seminal articles on group developmental theory, the use of activities in group work, group work with vulnerable populations, differentiating group work from case work in a group, and social action methods. Inhaltsverzeichnis About the Authors Preface Groups in Human Services: Some Facts and Fancies (Margaret E. Hartford) Planning: The Neglected Component of Group Development (Roselle Kurland) The Significance of Social Group Based on Ethical Values (Gisela Konopka) The Use of Program: Review and Update (Ruth R. Middleman) Meeting Practice Needs: Conceptualizing the Open-Ended Group (Janice H. Schopler and Maeda J. Galinsky) The Group Work Tradition and Social Work Practice (William Schwartz) Building Mutual Support in Groups (Alex Gitterman) Learning from Social Group Work Traditions (Margot Breton) Group Work vs. Casework in a Group: Principles and Implications for Teaching and Practice (Roselle Kurland and Robert Salmon) Group Work with ’Mixed Membership’ Groups: Issues of Race and Gender (Alan Brown and Tara Mistry) Waking the Heart Up: A Writing Group’s Story (Erica Schnekenburger) She’s Doing All the Talking, So What’s in It for Me? (The Use of Time in Groups) (Dominique Moyse Steinberg) The Personal in the Political: Exploring the Group Work Continuum from Individual to Social Change Goals (Marcia B. Cohen and Audrey Mullender) The Use of Purpose in On-Going Activity Groups: A Framework for Maximizing the Therapeutic Impact (Whitney Wright) Groups-on-the-Go: Spontaneously Formed Mutual Aid Groups for Adolescents in Distress (Jana Jagendorf and Andrew Malekoff) White Gloves and Cracked Vases: How Metaphors Help Group Workers Construct New Perspectives and Responses (Trudy K. Duffy) Will the Real Healer Please Take a Bow (Rachel Miller) Reference Notes Included ...