Group Work and Aging : Issues in Practice, Research, and Education

ISBN-13: 9780789028815 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 269 str.

Robert Salmon; Roberta Graziano

Opis

Although there is a considerable amount of writing on both group work and social work with the elderly, there is surprisingly little about applying this practice method to this specific age group. Group Work and Aging: Issues in Practice, Research, and Education fills this gap by presenting penetrating articles about a mutual aid approach to working with diverse groups of older adults with varied needs. Respected experts and gifted researchers provide case studies, practice examples, and explanation of theory to illustrate this practice method with aging adults, their families, and their caregivers. Each well-referenced chapter delivers high quality, up-to-date social group work practice strategies to prepare practitioners for the needs of the growing population of elderly in the near future.

Spis treści

• About the Contributors
  
• Foreword (M. Joanna Mellor)
  
• Introduction (Robert Salmon)
  
• What’s Different About Working with Older People in Groups? (Ronald W. Toseland and Victoria M. Rizzo)
  
• An Examination of Group Work with Old Lesbians Struggling with a Lack of Intimacy by Using a Record of Service (Kris Drumm)
  
• Sweethearts and Sourpusses: My Year with the Elderly (Sarah Stevenson)
  
• The Sociocultural Reality of the Asian Immigrant Elderly: Implications for Group Work Practice (Irene Chung)
  
• Residential Substance Abuse Treatment for Older Adults: An Enhanced Therapeutic Community Model (Frank Guida, Arnold Unterbach, John Tavolacci, and Peter Provet)
  
• Mutual Aid Groups for Older Persons with a Mental Illness (Timothy B. Kelly)
  
• The Relationship Between Caregiver Support Groups and the Marker Framework of Caregiving (Helene Ebenstein)
  
• Telephone Caregiver Support Groups (Tamara L. Smith, Ronald W. Toseland, Victoria M. Rizzo, and Michele A. Zinoman)
  
• Elderly Parents of Adults with Severe Mental Illness: Group Work Interventions (Harriet Goodman)
  
• Seniors, Small Fry, and Song: A Group Work Libretto of an Intergenerational Singing Group (Miriam Cusicanqui and Robert Salmon)
  
• Using the End of Groups as an Intervention at End-of-Life (Ann Goelitz)
  
• Group Field Instruction: A Model for Supervising Graduate Students Providing Services to Older People (Barbara H. Rinehart and Roberta Graziano)
  
• The Use of a Mutual Aid Group with Home Attendants (Sister Maria Theresa Amato)
  
• Remembering With and Without Awareness Through Poetry to Better Understand Aging and Disability (Andrew Malekoff)
  
• Index
  
• Reference Notes Included
  

O autorze

Roberta K Graziano, Robert Salmon