A Handbook of Contemporary Group Work Practice

Caroylyn Knight, PhD, MSW is a social worker with more than thirty years of experience facilitating groups for a range of client populations including adult survivors of childhood trauma, children grieving the loss of a loved one, and parents experiencing homelessness. Dr. Knight also has more than thirty years of experience teaching group work practice in the generalist/foundation social work curriculum and has presented many workshops and trainings on the modality to professional practitioners. Geoffrey L. Greif, PhD is Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland School of Social Work and the author of over 175 articles and book chapters and the author/editor of 16 books. He has over 40 years' experience leading and writing about groups with diverse populations from children and parents in the public schools to men in the criminal legal system. He is a fellow in the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare.

• PART I Contemporary Group Work Practice: Empowering Members through Fostering Mutual Aid Chapter 1 Group work practice: An overview Carolyn Knight Chapter 2 Phases of work and associated skills and tasks in group work practice Carolyn Knight Chapter 3 Promoting resilience and growth in group work practice: Core principles and considerations Carolyn Knight & Geoff Greif Chapter 4 A dozen "musts" students and practitioners new to the modality should know before they start their group work experience. Geoff Greif & Carolyn Knight PART II Groups that Promote Resilience and Growth in Response to Challenging Life Transitions Chapter 5 Group work with individuals experiencing first-episode schizophrenia Rachel Miller & Susan Mason Chapter 6 Online group work with young women with breast cancer Erin Nau Chapter 7 Group work with adults with substance use and co-occurring mental health disorders Francis Bartomoleo Chapter 8 Group work with individuals who are incarcerated Jane Stuthmann Chapter 9 Group work with fathers who are incarcerated or in residential treatment Geoffrey Greif Chapter 10 Group work in a shelter with parents experiencing homelessness Carolyn Knight Chapter 11 Group work with Asian and Asian-American family caregivers of individuals with dementia Youjung Lee & Kelley Cook Chapter 12 Mindfulness based forgiveness group for older adults Mariko Foulk, Berit Ingersoll-Dayton, & James T. Fitzgerald Chapter 13 Group work with older adults grieving loss Donna Kane & Geoffrey Greif PART III Groups that Promote Resilience and Growth in Response to Trauma Exposure Chapter 14 Group Work with Children who have Experienced Abuse Betsy Offermann, Monica Beltran, Cynthia Rollo, and Sara Davis Chapter 15 Group work with children who have experienced abuse, neglect, and loss Diana Coholic Chapter 16 Group work with children and adolescents exposed to community violence and traumatic loss Alison Salloum & Mia White Chapter 17 Experiential group work with adult survivors of relational trauma and childhood sexual abuse Scott Giacomucci & Haydn Briggs Chapter 18 Group Work with Survivors of Sex Trafficking Dominique Roe Sepowitz & Ezequiel Y. Dominguez Chapter 19 Developing a Safe Space: Group Work with Women Survivors of Interpersonal Violence Sari Skolnik & Louise Skolnik Chapter 20 Violence Prevention Group for Men who have been Targets of Community Violence David Ross Chapter 21 Group Work with Combat Veterans: Vietnam through the Persian Gulf Era Tracey L. Waite, Julie A. Ellis, & Joanne M. Boyle PART IV Groups that Challenge Systemic Inequality and Marginalization Chapter 22 The Rainbow Club: Group Work with Elementary School LGBTQ+ Students and Allies Alissa Greif Ovadia, Jennifer Baum, Ellen Mills, Lauren Stewart, & Christin Wheeler Chapter 23 Group Work with Boys and Young Men of Color: Building a Brotherhood for Collective Healing and Social change Jon Gilgoff, Francisco J. Alvarado Rosas, & Haydn Griffith Chapter 24 The Invincible Black Women Group: Empowering Black College Women Martinique Jones, Brandi Pritchett-Johnson, Gabriella Gaskin-Cole, & Janay Christian Chapter 25 Place-based Group Work: Building and Strengthening Communities Dr. Megan Meyer & Jonalyn Denlinger Chapter 26 Group Work to Promote Leadership Among Undocumented Immigrant Latinas Dr. Alexandra Piñeros-Shields