Making Joyful Noise: The Art, Science, and Soul of Group Work

ISBN-13: 9780789032379 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 327 str.

Andrew Malekoff; Dominique Moyse Steinberg; Robert Salmon

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This diverse collection of articles by group work professionals who work in the classroom and in the field captures not only the art and science of social work with groups but also its soul, highlighting practice, teaching, and writing ideas that promote the power of group work - and the people who do it. Making Joyful Noise reinforces the value and uniqueness of group work as a positive, optimistic, empowering, and affirming way of working with people.

The articles presented here cover a wide range of age groups, populations, and settings and include examples on the use of activity and discussion in groups: a poetry club for children, the meaning of camp for preadolescents, a boxing group for adolescents who live in the inner city, self-defense classes for adults, and caregiver support for the elderly. The book also steps into the classroom to promote the teaching of social group work and the education of advanced group work practitioners and to encourage practitioners to write about their group work practice. Finally, the book presents and illustrates a number of concepts that are unique to group work and that encourage front-line practitioners to "be bold" and to "stay in the mess."

While organized as a tribute to the late Dr. Roselle Kurland, Making Joyful Noise is in and of itself an important collection of articles and essays on social group work and one that is certain to provide all practitioners who are interested in group work with a spark, a smile, and some needed inspiration for their important work.

Making Joyful Noise includes:

• essentials for preserving, promoting, and portraying group work practice
  
• the critical relationship between human and professional ethics in group work
  
• six common mistakes that practitioners make in regard to group purpose
  
• using organizational analysis to improve group work practice
  
• creatively blending activity and discussion in diverse settings
  
• cultivating collegiality to reduce isolation and enhance practice
  
• developing a capacity to "stay in the mess" in group work with people of all ages
  
• skills for effectively working with transitions, separation, and loss in group
  
• guidelines for practitioners wishing to write for publication
  
• and much more

This book is a rich and diverse collection that is required reading for anyone working to promote social work with groups.

Spis treści

• About the Authors
  
• Foreword (Helen E. Northen)
  
• Preface
  
• Making Joyful Noise: Presenting, Promoting, and Portraying Group Work to and for the Profession (Roselle Kurland and Robert Salmon)
  
• The Essential Power of Group Work (Kris Drumm)
  
• The Art, Science, Heart, and Ethics of Social Group Work: Lessons from a Great Teacher (Dominique Moyse Steinberg)
  
• On Being Bold, Valuing Process, and Cultivating Collegiality (Keren Ludwig and Priska Imberti)
  
• Putting Ideas to Paper: A Guideline for Practitioners (and Others) Who Wish to Write for Publication (Andrew Malekoff)
  
• Education for the Group Worker’s Reality: The Special Qualities and World View of Those Drawn to Work with Groups (Roselle Kurland and Robert Salmon)
  
• Organizational Insight and the Education of Advanced Group Work Practitioners (Harriet Goodman)
  
• Purpose: A Misunderstood and Misused Keystone of Group Work Practice (Roselle Kurland and Robert Salmon)
  
• “What Could Happen and What Couldn’t Happen”: A Poetry Club for Kids (Andrew Malekoff)
  
• The Meaning of Camp and Social Group Work Principles (Lainey Collins)
  
• Keep It in the Ring: Using Boxing in Social Group Work with High-Risk and Offender Youth to Reduce Violence (Whitney Wright)
  
• You Don’t Always Have to Pick Up Your Mess Right Away: How Being Messy Can Be Really Neat! (Vicki Hallas)
  
• Group Work Gets Physical: Self-Defense Class and Social Work (Sarah Stevenson)
  
• I’m Gone When You’re Gone: How a Group Can Survive When Its Leader Takes a Leave of Absence (Joanna Pudil)
  
• A Worker’s Personal Grief and Its Impact on Processing a Group’s Termination (Camille P. Roman)
  
• Caregiver Support Groups: Finding Common Ground (Helene Ebenstein)
  
• Group Bereavement Support for Spouses Who Are Grieving the Loss of a Partner to Cancer (Rachel M. Schneider)
  
• Retrospective Book Review: Teaching a Methods Course in Social Work with Groups (Mary C. Bitel)
  
• Index
  
• Reference Notes Included
  

O autorze

Andrew Malekoff, Robert Salmon, Dominique Moyse Steinberg