Social Group Work

Joseph Lassner, Kathleen Powell, Elaine Finnegan

• Contents IntroductionSocial Work With Oppressed Populations: Jane Addams Won’t You Please Come Home? GROUP WORK THEORY Selection of Groups as the Preferred Modality of Practice Teaching and Learning the Practice of Social Group Work: Four Curriculum Termination or Transformation? Evolving Beyond Termination in Groups The Group-in-Community as the Unit of Attention in Conceptualizing Social Work With Groups GROUP WORK STRUCTURE Practitioners’ Views of Assets and Liabilities of Open-Ended Groups Single Session Group Practice in a Hospital The Single-Session Waiting Room Group GENDER AND RACE ISSUES IN GROUP WORK Exploring the Effects of Leader Gender and Race on Group Behavior THE USE OF GROUPS FOR COPING WITH FAMILY ISSUES Caring for Caregivers of the Elderly: A Group Approach to Families Under Stress Mothers and Daughters in Later Life: Rediscovery and Renegotiation: A Group Work Approach Structure and Dynamics of Family of Origin Groups GROUP WORK IN HEALTH SETTINGS Volunteers and Group Work: The Hospice Volunteer as Model Group Work and Medical Education Appendix