Brooks/Cole Empowerment Series: Social Work with Groups: A Comprehensive Worktext

By Charles Zastrow

Book Overview

Using a plentiful selection of skill-building and self-evaluation exercises, author Charles Zastrow's comprehensive, workbook-style resource promotes his philosophy that you can learn group leadership skills best by practicing them in class. In this ninth edition of SOCIAL WORK WITH GROUPS: A COMPREHENSIVE WORKBOOK, Zastrow discusses topics that are central to a successful understanding of group leadership: stages of groups, group dynamics, verbal and nonverbal communication, types of groups, and diversity in groups. With support from this book, your classroom will become a "lab" where you can experience what it's like to work in and lead many kinds of groups. Updated throughout with timely new topics and firsthand accounts from experienced social group work professionals, this edition also includes a new chapter on treatment groups with diverse and vulnerable populations. Attention CourseMate user: Cengage support for existing users of CourseMate will end of 8/1/2020.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1285746406
• ISBN13: 9781285746401
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: Cengage Learning
• Length: 672 Pages
• Weight: 2.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.0" x 1.0" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

working in a group environment

The workbook is strongly task oriented, as you should expect. Each chapter does have a concise description of its theme, like intervention techniques or conflict resolution. But you are expected to use the underlying textbook for a fuller exposition. Instead, this workbook has extensive exercises for the chapters. Many are group exercises, which are meant to also let you garner experience in contributing to and running such groups. Indeed a significant point of the entire workbook is the latter. Above the specifics of a given exercise's tasks, take the opportunity to work in a group environment. Good practical experience.