Summary
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Subject index
Socially Just Practice in Groups: A Social Work Perspective comprehensively covers all aspects of group practice in social work settings, integrating a unique social justice framework throughout. Drawing from their experience as group work practitioners, authors Robert Ortega and Charles D. Garvin walk readers through the basics of group practice, including getting started, doing group work, establishing the purpose, roles and tasks of the group, stages and phases of practice, and specific skills in assessment, monitoring, and evaluation. A social justice framework provides a fresh perspective during an era of widespread social change and provides social workers tools for effective group interventions. Chapters contain detailed case examples to illustrate concepts presented, as well as exercises to help students practice skills.
Knowledge for Practice
Knowledge for Practice
We now move from the historical discussion of the evolution of current models of group work to a discussion of the sociological and social-psychological concepts that group workers now draw upon in understanding of groups. This discussion elaborates further on our conceptual diagram introduced in Chapter 1 (see Figure 1.1) that we developed (with Beth Reed and Mieko Yoshihama) (Reed, Ortega, & Garvin, 2010) and elaborated on in Reisch and Garvin (2016). In this chapter, we discuss how this conceptual perspective can be used with diverse populations, particularly in terms of its implications for how social justice is promoted or challenged in small groups relevant to structure, processes, cohesiveness, and group culture.
Structures
One aspect of small groups is their structure ...
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