1st Edition

Group Work Learning and Practice

Edited By Nano McCaughan Copyright 1978
208 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge

Group work is central to social work, whether it be work with individuals and families, residential care, community work, management or social work education. Despite, however, the upsurge of interest in this aspect of social work method at the time Group Work: Learning and Practice , originally published in 1978, represented the first attempt at providing an up-to-date and carefully integrated... Read more

Foreword by David Jones.  Acknowledgements.  Notes on Contributors.  Part I: Frameworks for Practice  1. Introduction: A Framework for Thinking about Group Work Nano McCaughan  2. Continuing Themes in Social Group Work Nano McCaughan  3. Choice of the Group as a Target of Intervention Anne Vickery, Charlotte Rawcliffe and Veronica Ward  4. Group Work as a Process of Social Influence Peter B. Smith  5. Working with Groups in the Residential Setting Chris Payne  Part II: Aspects of Training  6. A Model for Teaching Group Work Tom Douglas  7. Fantasy and Reality in Group Life: A Model for Learning by Experience Barry Palmer  8. Group Supervision in Fieldwork Placements Hilary Davies  9. The Development of Group Work in a Social Service Department Herbert Laming and Sheila Sturton  Part III: Aspects of Practice  10. Work with a Parents’ Group: Individual and Social Learning through Peer Group Experience Lorna Walker  11. Group Work in a Hostel for the Mentally Handicapped Alice Breslin and Sheila Sturton  12. Family Therapy: The Family Group as the Medium for Change Rosemary Whiffen  13. Journey into the Acting Community: Experiences of Learning and Change in Community Groups David N. Thomas  14. Programme Activities in Social Group Work Catherine Briscoe.  References.  Index.

Biography

Nano McCaughan