Case-Based Learning for Group Intervention in Social Work

Case-Based Learning for Group Intervention in Social Work provides essential information on planning and facilitating groups in a clear and easy-to-understand format. Current practice challenges, such as working with people that are mandated to group services and the proliferation of open-ended groups, are taken on directly with an array of strategies. To develop student competency, this volume uses a contemporary pedagogy--case-based learning--as a teaching tool for analysis, application, and decision-making. By working through cases, students gain exposure to the considerable range of populations that can be served by social work group intervention. The text is accompanied by Teaching Notes (available at www.oup.com/us/case-based) to help instructors dive deeply into student responses, whether cases are discussed in the classroom as a whole, in small group activities, or as individual assignments.

SECTION I. Introduction and Overview
Chapter 1: Introduction and Overview

SECTION II. Designing Group Services
Chapter 2: Planning and Setting Up Groups
Chapter 3: Selecting Leaders and Participants

SECTION III. Ethics and Cultural Diversity
Chapter 4: Ethics and Cultural Diversity

SECTION IV: Stages of Group
Chapter 5: Stages of Group Development
Chapter 6: Phases of the Group Session

SECTION V. Facilitation Skills
Chapter 7: Basic Group Work Skills
Chapter 8: Cultivating Group Participation

SECTION VI. Groups with Youth
Chapter 9: Group Work with Children and Adolescents

SECTION VII. Theoretical Perspectives
Chapter 10: Solution-Focused Groups
Chapter 11: Motivational Interviewing
Chapter 12: Cognitive-Behavioral Interventions in Groups