1st Edition
Social Work with Groups Social Justice Through Personal, Community, and Societal Change
272 Pages
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Routledge
276 Pages
by
Routledge
276 Pages
by
Routledge
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Help change the world by bringing ideas of social justice into your group work practice! Social workers who use hip-hop music to reach out to troubled adolescents. Practitioners who compare First Nations talking circles with social work practice with groups. A retired professor who transforms the way her fellow senior living center residents participate in their world. Fathers of children with... Read more
- About the Editors
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Section I: Social Justice and Social Work with Groups
- Chapter 1. Social Justice: A Global Perspective
- Chapter 2. Social Justice and Social Work with Groups: Fragile—Handle with Care
- Introduction: An Image of Fragility
- Fragility and Injustice
- Group Practice As Social Justice Practice
- Conclusion: An Image of Practice
- Chapter 3. The Meaning, Scope, and Context of the Concept of Social Justice in Social Work with Groups
- Distributive Justice
- Procedural Justice
- Retributive Justice
- Conclusion
- Chapter 4. Current Innovations in Social Work with Groups to Address Issues of Social Justice
- Examples of Innovative Practice
- Barriers
- Opportunities
- What’s to Be Done?
- Section II: Social Justice in Theory for Social Work with Groups
- Chapter 5. Group Work and Social Justice: Rhetoric or Actions?
- State of the Art
- Historical Context
- The Debate and Arguments
- The Current Social Scene
- Universality of Social Justice
- Toward a Definition of Justice
- Value Premises of Social Justice
- Values in Conflict
- Scapegoating
- Transforming Images
- Conclusion
- Chapter 6. Social Group Work, Social Justice
- The Meanings of Social Justice in Social Work
- The Social Goals Model
- Practice Examples
- Summary
- Chapter 7. Culturally Grounded Approaches to Social Justice Through Social Work with Groups
- Introduction
- Globalization, Social Justice, and Social Work
- A Culturally Grounded Approach
- Group Work
- Chapter 8. Social Work with Groups, Mutual Aid, and Social Justice
- Section III: Social Justice in the Practice of Social Work with Groups
- Chapter 9. Meet Them in The Lab: Using Hip-Hop Music Therapy Groups with Adolescents in Residential Settings
- The Needs of Adolescents in Care
- The Use of Group Members’ Intere
Biography
N. Sullivan, L. Mitchell, D. Goodman, N.C. Lang, E.S. Mesbur
