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Cover of GROUP WORK PRACTICE TO ADVANCE SOCIAL

GROUP WORK PRACTICE TO ADVANCE SOCIAL : A SPECIALIZED METHODOLOGY FOR SOCIAL WORK

ISBN 9780231151375
Pages 276
Year 2010
Edition 1
Subject SOCIOLOGY
Rs 4400.00 Rs 3520.00
Description
Small social groups are fundamental for achieving personal growth, social development, socialization, and the skills of sustaining relevance, relationships, and connections to society. Unfortunately, those who would benefit most from small groups often find themselves unable to achieve membership. Lacking the necessary skills for entry, these individuals may never enjoy the advantages of group membership. Advancing a practice methodology that specifically targets the socially unskilled, Norma C. Lang provides much-needed guidance to practitioners helping individuals become part of group life. Grounded in extensive practice, Lang's methodology addresses the special needs and anomalous functioning of individuals who lack the skills to form and use groups. She outlines the unique pregroup processes of socially unskilled populations and provides a methodology for advancing social competence. She also identifies the professional and agency requirements for working with presocial processes. Widely applicable to practice with social work groups, Lang's method greatly expands the literature on social work theory and practice with individuals and groups.
About Author(s)
 Norma Lang is professor emerita of the Faculty of Social Work at the University of Toronto. Her practice experience involves work with several at-risk populations and with emotionally disturbed children and her teaching expertise concerns social work with groups, qualitative research, and nondeliberative forms of social work practice, which is the subject of her next book. She has a special interest in the development of practice theory for social work with groups.
Content
Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part 1 Social Competence and Social Noncompetence

1. The Concepts of Social Competence and Social Noncompetence

2. Individual Social Competence: The Necessary Condition for Group Forming and Group Functioning

3. Forms of Socially Noncompetent Interaction Requiring Special Adaptations to Social Work Practice with Groups

Part 2 Group Work Practice Theory Essential to Practice with Both Socially Competent and Socially Unskilled Populations

4. The Small Group in Life and in Social Work Practice: Forms and Functions

5. Concurrent Interventions in Multiple Domains: The Essence of Social Work with Groups

6. The Social Work Group as Unique Social Form: Influence of Professional Norms

7. A Broad-Range Model of Practice in the Social Work Group: Group Forms and Worker Technology

8. The Mainstream Model of Practice in Social Work Groups

9. A Specialized Practice Methodology to Promote Social Competence

Part 3 A Specialized Practice Methodology for Socially Unskilled Populations

10. Features of the Specialized Methodology for Practice with Socially Unskilled Individuals and Entities

11. Requirements for a Specialized Practice with Socially Unskilled Populations

12. Specifics of Intervention in the Pregroup Period with Socially Unskilled Populations: Adaptations to the Technology of Social Work with Groups

13. The Centrality of Actional Modes: Mobilizing Effectance

14. The Route to an Achievable Entity: How the Specialized Practice Evolves

15. Portrait of Practice with a Socially Unskilled Population

References

Index

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