Social Work Practice with Groups: A Clinical Perspective* Focuses on clinical settings and brings social worker perspective to the topic..* Main objectives: to teach social work practitioners how to do clinical social work with groups; to integrate small group theory and therapeutic prinicples in a way that is useful and meaningful; & to present techniques that increase the chance of the groupUs success and the membersU growth..* Clearly concentrates on techniques and strategies that work within the real world of clinic and hospital life, social agencies and institutions, and illustrates those techniques thru liberal use of personal examples. |
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A Fully Functioning Person | 3 |
Unifying Assumptions | 11 |
In Summary | 17 |
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