Social Work with Groups: Social Justice

Helps you learn how to empower your groups and assist them in understanding their power to create change in their own communities.

About the Editors

xi

Contibutors

xiii

Foreword

xix

Catherine P. Papell

Acknowledgments

xxi

Introduction

xxiii

SECTION I: SOCIAL JUSTICE AND SOCIAL WORK WITH GROUPS

Social Justice: A Global Perspective

3

(4)

Stephen Lewis

Social Justice and Social Work with Groups: Fragile---Handle with Care

7

(18)

Ben Zion Shapiro

Introduction: An Image of Fragility

7

(1)

Fragility and Injustice

8

(5)

Group Practice As Social Justice Practice

13

(8)

Conclusion: An Image of Practice

21

(4)

The Meaning, Scope, and Context of the Concept of Social Justice in Social Work with Groups

25

(10)

Alex Gitterman

Distributive Justice

25

(3)

Procedural Justice

28

(1)

Retributive Justice

29

(2)

Conclusion

31

(4)

Current Innovations in Social Work with Groups to Address Issues of Social Justice

35

(18)

Paule McNicoll

Examples of Innovative Practice

36

(6)

Barriers

42

(3)

Opportunities

45

(3)

What's to Be Done?

48

(5)

SECTION II: SOCIAL JUSTICE IN THEORY FOR SOCIAL WORK WITH GROUPS

Group Work and Social Justice: Rhetoric or Action?

53

(12)

George S. Getzel

State of the Art

53

(1)

Historical Context

54

(1)

The Debate and Arguments

55

(1)

The Current Social Scene

56

(1)

Universality of Social Justice

57

(1)

Toward a Definition of Justice

57

(2)

Value Premises of Social Justice

59

(1)

Values in Conflict

60

(1)

Scapegoating

60

(1)

Transforming Images

61

(2)

Conclusion

63

(2)

Social Group Work, Social Justice

65

(14)

Sue Henry

The Meanings of Social Justice in Social Work

65

(2)

The Social Goals Model

67

(4)

Practice Examples

71

(4)

Summary

75

(4)

Culturally Grounded Approaches to Social Justice Through Social Work with Groups

79

(12)

Flavio Francisco Marsiglia

Introduction

79

(1)

Globalization, Social Justice, and Social Work

80

(2)

A Culturally Grounded Approach

82

(3)

Group Work

85

(6)

Social Work with Groups, Mutual Aid, and Social Justice

91

(12)

Dominique Moyse-Steinberg

SECTION III: SOCIAL JUSTICE IN THE PRACTICE OF SOCIAL WORK WITH GROUPS

Meet Them in The Lab: Using Hip-Hop Music Therapy Groups with Adolescents in Residential Settings

103

(16)

Susan Ciardiello

The Needs of Adolescents in Care

104

(1)

The Use of Group Members' Interests in Programming

104

(1)

Hip-Hop Culture

105

(1)

The Lab Group Work Program Model: Activity-Centered Therapy (ACT)

106

(4)

Setting Up The Lab

110

(2)

Who Is in The Lab?

112

(1)

The Lab in Action

113

(2)

Conclusion

115

(4)

Talking Circles: A Traditional Form of Group Work

119

(16)

Arielle Dylan

New Perspectives in Group Work for Working with Sexually Abused African-American Children

135

(12)

Claudia Lawrence-Webb

Child Sexual Abuse: Race, Culture, and Ethnicity

136

(1)

An Africentric Group Work Model for Working with African-American Girls

137

(7)

Conclusion

144

(3)

Worker Self-Disclosure in Group Work

147

(12)

Estelle Hopmeyer

Introduction

147

(1)

Defining Self-Disclosure

148

(3)

Social Group Work

151

(4)

Conclusions

155

(4)

Meals Made Easy: A Group Program at a Food Bank for Parents of Young Children

159

(10)

Zelda Moldofsky

Sue Devor

Introduction

159

(1)

Setting and Methodology

160

(4)

Results

164

(1)

Discussion

165

(2)

Summary and Conclusions

167

(2)

A Social Group Worker As a Resident in an Independent Living Facility

169

(12)

Betty L. Welsh

Introduction

169

(3)

Interest Groups

172

(1)

Support Groups

173

(1)

Discussion Groups

173

(1)

Task Groups

174

(3)

Service to the Community

177

(1)

Outcomes

178

(3)

From Fragile to Wild: Group Work As the Transforming Element in Redressing Social Inequities for Older Women

181

(16)

Merike Mannik

The Context

181

(2)

Consciousness-Building Groups

183

(4)

Competency-Building Groups

187

(1)

Social Capital-Building Groups

188

(1)

Community-Building Groups

189

(1)

Full Citizenship-Building Groups

190

(1)

Worker Roles

191

(1)

Conclusion

191

(6)

SECTION IV: SOCIAL JUSTICE IN SOCIAL WORK EDUCATION AND RESEARCH FOR SOCIAL WORK WITH GROUPS

Group Passage to the Profession: The Field Seminar in Social Work Education

197

(16)

Michael Phillips

Carol S. Cohen

Linda Hutton

Introduction

197

(1)

Field Education and Professional Development

198

(1)

Field Seminar As a Group Experience

199

(2)

Field Seminar Journey

201

(9)

Concluding Comments

210

(3)

Justice in Teaching: Teaching As Group Work

213

(14)

Mari Ann Graham

Constructivist Paradigm of Teaching and Learning

214

(1)

Rationale for Constructivist Teaching Methods in Social Work Education

215

(3)

Grounded Discussion

218

(5)

Results

223

(2)

Conclusion

225

(2)

Participant Perceptions of Online Group Work with Fathers of Children with Spina Bifida

227

(14)

David B. Nicholas

Introduction

227

(1)

Background

227

(2)

The Group

229

(1)

Participant Interviews

230

(1)

Findings

231

(7)

Discussion

238

(2)

Conclusion

240

(1)

Index

241

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