Social work with groups : social justice through personal, community, and societal change / Nancy E. Sullivan [and others], editors.

Selected proceedings of the 22nd Annual International Symposium of the Association for the Advancement of Social Work with Groups, held in Toronto, Canada, Oct. 2000.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Social justice and social work with groups. Social justice : a global perspective / Stephen Lewis -- Social justice and social work with groups : fragile- handle with care / Ben Zion Shapiro -- The meaning, scope, and context of the concept of social justice in social work with groups / Alex Gitterman -- Current innovations in social work with groups to address issues of social justice / Paule McNicoll -- Social justice in theory for social work with groups. Group work and social justice : rhetoric or action? / Geoprge S. Getzel -- Social group work, social justice / Sue Henry -- Culturally grounded approaches to social justice through social work with groups / Flavio Francisco Marsiglia -- Social work with groups, mutual aid, and social justice / Donimique Moyse-Steinberg -- 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 / Susan Ciardiello -- Talking circles : a traditional form of group work / Arielle Dylan -- New perspectives in group work for working with sexually abused African-American children / Claudia Lawrence-Webb -- Worker self-disclosure in group work / Estelle Hopmeyer -- Meals made easy : a group program at a food bank for parents of young children / Zelda Moldofsky, Sue Devor -- A social group worker as a resident in an independent living facility / Betty L. Welsh -- From fragile to wild : group work as the transforming element in redressing social inequities for older women / Merike Mannik -- 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 / Michael Philips, Carol S. Cohen, Linda Hutton -- Justice in teaching : teaching as group work / Mari Ann Graham -- Participant perceptions of online group work with fathers of children with spina bifida / David B. Nicholas.

Help change the world by bringing ideas of social justice into your group work practice. Social workers who use hip-hop music to reach out to troubled adolescents. Practitioners who compare First Nations talking circles with social work practice with groups. A retired professor who transforms the way her fellow senior living center residents participate in their world. Fathers of children with spina bifida who help one another through an online discussion group. These and other examples you'll discover in Social Work with Groups: Social Justice Through Personal, Community, and Societa.

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