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Social group work unites individuals, groups, and communities in times of struggle and times of success. The positive impact of group intervention becomes even more apparent and powerful when persons are confronted by extraordinary circumstances that cause social isolation, grief and loss, trauma, or despair during a global health emergency such as COVID-19. This book focuses on social group work interventions shared by scholars at the Inte...

Occupational therapy originated in social reform, but early in its history became allied with medicine and a biomedical perspective. Over the last two decades the profession has recognized the value of the work of its pioneers and sought to argue for principles such as occupational justice and occupational balance, social inclusion, and for forms of involvement based in the community which centre on people doing things together. This is the...

First-time novelist Thomas James Whiting has recently been spending time tracking down a suitable genre for his just completed novel now that literary fiction's definition has undergone controversy over what should and should not be included in the arena that was once ruled by the synonym for literature. Whiting spent the first thirteen years of his life in Weyerhaeuser, Wisconsin and vividly recalls the first description of literary fiction t...

First-time novelist Thomas James Whiting has recently been spending time tracking down a suitable genre for his just completed novel now that literary fiction's definition has undergone controversy over what should and should not be included in the arena that was once ruled by the synonym for literature. Whiting grew up in Weyerhaeuser, Wisconsin and vividly recalls the first description of literary fiction thrown his way...character-driven ra...

Occupational therapy originated in social reform, and then became allied with medicine and a biomedical. This work shows how the profession has recognised the value of the work of its pioneers, and now argues for principles such as occupational justice and the right to health-promoting occupations, social inclusion, and involvement in the community.

Occupational therapy originated in social reform, but early in its history became allied with medicine, a biomedical perspective and a focus on individual health. Over the last two decades the profession has recognised the value of the work of its pioneers and argued for principles such as occupational justice and the right to health-promoting occupations, social inclusion, and for forms of involvement based in the community which centre aroun...

Personal Account of the International Association of Social Work with Groups (IASWG) Symposium, Kruger National Park, South Africa Paul JohnsonBuild the Social Justice Bridge: Participatory photography with the international group work community Lorrie Greenhouse Gardella and Reineth PrinslooDefying the labels: The empowering role of group work in a poverty alleviation project Gerna Wessels and Elmien ClaassensGemeinwesenarbeit und Social Grou...

In this book, Ikiugu and Pollard explore the notion of meaningfulness, in the light of Viktor Frankl's (1992) assertions that the will to meaning is the primary motivation for behavior in human existence, and that the frustration of the pursuit for meaning in the modern and Western world constituted what he termed 'existential vacuum', leading in turn to what he called 'noogenic neurosis' or 'the disease of meaninglessness'The authors then sho...

We all aspire to happiness, but why happiness in Bolton? In the late 1930s, the Mass Observation Happiness Project turned its attention to Bolton (anonymised as Worktown). The extensive research papers from this exercise are still available and provide a superbly vivid insight into the joys and the disappointments of ordinary people in Bolton at that time. This book looks at how have changes since then have affected the aspirations of Bolton...

This book offers a vivid collection of chapters for anyone involved in group work education or training at any level.The collection combines a range of theoretical and ethical insights with a pragmatic approach to building competence in day to day interventions with groups across many settings. Whether you work in a university or a workplace setting, you will find value in these diverse chapters, each accompanied by an updated commentary to em...

Occupational therapy originated in social reform, but early in its history became allied with medicine, a biomedical perspective and a focus on individual health. Over the last two decades the profession has recognised the value of the work of its pioneers and argued for principles such as occupational justice and the right to health-promoting occupations, social inclusion, and for forms of involvement based in the community which centre aroun...

Inquiry into the mental health of women in the Arab regions is coming into its own. Mirroring the slow start of gendered investigations of emotional health globally and hampered by the parallel infancy of general considerations of mental health in the Islamic world, serious academic attention finally is being paid to how women in these regions manage their considerable psychological strain.The author has been at the vanguard of this analysis. ...

The nine chapters in this volume explore the history and values of social group work as realized in global and local, macro and micro practice today. Social group work has always emphasised citizenship, democracy, and social justice, the ongoing development of group work as a global and local, macro and micro level profession, and the method of group work as a resource for social and individual action and wellbeing. The nine chapters presented...

Authors give attention to the theory and practice of social action and self-directed groupwork. These papers present a range of perspectives and experiences to provide a vivid account of social action as a values-based approach committed to social justice and empowerment. In addition, they contain a wealth of ideas and practices, a detailed resource which we hope will inspire and signpost, without shirking the dilemmas and challenges to be con...

Proceedings of the XXXVIII and XXXIX International Symposium of the International Association for Social Work with Groups, New York City, New York, USA, June 15-18, 2016 and June 7-10 2017

This book is about contemporary social work and is different to most because instead of being written by subject specialists or academics the book is written by students as experts by experience. Each chapter is a contribution to practice as an outcome of a student's social work placement in front line children's services in England. The book contains the final theses of student social workers enrolled under the 'Step Up to Social Work' initia...

As a discipline and a profession, social work builds on a wide variety of methods and techniques for its practice. The broader frameworks of social work methodology guide social workers through the process of developing and creating interventions with different service users, carers and other professionals.This book aims to provide an overview of current debates concerning social work methods and methodologies from an international perspective...

Today, there is much emphasis on concepts such as 'partnership', 'consumer responsive services', 'openness', 'complaints procedures' and 'participation in decision making'. However, staff often find it difficult to formulate workable strategies to apply the concept of empowerment. This book will assist by offering a clear analysis of the concept of empowerment and a workable practice tool, in the form of the Empowerment Grid. David Neville is ...

A series of case studies and practice accounts from several countries which illustrate applications of the social group work model in a range of settings.

A series of case studies and practice accounts from several coiuntries which illustrate applications of the social group work model in a range of settings.