
The Skills of Helping Individuals, Families, Groups, and Communities
by Shulman, Lawrence-
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Summary
Table of Contents
Introduction and Underlying Assumptions | |
A Model of the Helping Process | |
An Interactional Approach to Helping | |
Human Behavior and the Social Environment | |
Social Work with Individuals | |
The Preliminary Phase of Work | |
Beginnings and the Contracting Skills | |
Skills in the Work Phase | |
Endings and Transitions | |
Social Work with Families | |
The Preliminary and Beginning Phases in Family Practice | |
The Middle and Ending Phases in Family Practice | |
Variations in Family Practice | |
Social Work with Groups | |
The Preliminary Phase in Group Practice: The Group as a Mutual-Aid System | |
The Beginning Phase in the Group | |
The Work Phase in the Group | |
Working with the Individual and the Group | |
Endings and Transitions with Groups | |
Social Work with the Second Client: The Agency System, the Community and Social Policy Practice | |
Professional Impact and Helping Clients Negotiate the System | |
Social Work Practice in the Community | |
Macro Social Work Practice and Social Policy Change | |
Practice Models and Evidenced-Based Practice | |
Some Additional Social Work Perspectives and Evidenced-Based Practice | |
The Impact on Practice of Policy, Ethics and Legislation | |
The Impact of Agency Culture, Ethics, Legislation and Evaluation | |
Glossary | |
References | |
Index of Case Examples | |
Name Index | |
Subject Index | |
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