Skills for Direct Practice in Social Work

Ruth R. Middleman and Gale Goldberg Wood are both Professors of Social Work at the Kent School of Social Work at the University of Louisville. They have collaborated for twenty years and have written books with an innovative approach to social work practice (the structural approach) and many journal articles in areas of practice: experiential approaches, perception and cognition, group work, and interviewing skills.

• Preface Introduction I. Inner Skills 1. Perception Skills 2. Cognitive Skills II. Interactional Skills 3. Skills for Setting the Stage 4. Skills for Dealing with Feelings 5. Skills for Dealing with Information III. Skills For Working with Groups 6. About Groups 7. Continuous Group Skills 8. Skills for Building Groups 9. Skills for Facilitating the Work of the Group 10. Skills for Non-Talking Groups and Non-Talking Times with Groups IV. Strategic Skills 11. Skills for Dealing with Barriers 12. Skills for Coping with Conflict Notes Index