How do you choose an appropriate approach for working with each different group you come across? Grounded in systems theory, Oded Manor's model provides a framework that bridges the gap between overly prescribed schemes that do not always meet clients' needs, and open ones that fail to provide sufficient details about practice. The book includes detailed discussion of actual transcripts of working through stages with the same group, and analysis of published accounts of working with very different groups. Constructing a framework around a universal paradox, Manor demonstrates how to identify...

The answer depends to some extent on the work-setting you have in mind. In Ripples, leading groupworkers introduce you to eleven applications. Assuming little prior knowledge, each tells you of the clients'/users' needs, the methods used and the ideas that guide workers in one setting. Further reading is suggested. Initiated by the interdisciplinary journal Groupwork, Ripples invites workers to learn form one another, in the belief that the ripples of shared learning can only strengthen groupwork practice. The settings include: personal growth, palliative care, occupational therapy, criminal...

This is the second title in the Groupwork Monographs Series, themed anthologies of papers published over the years in Groupwork each dedicated to one area of groupwork practice. Titles will include Groupwork and Women, Social Action Groupwork, and Groupwork Relations. Books in the series are designed to be useful to students, practitioners, teachers and trainers, and researchers alike. All are invited to sample a pool of knowledge that has accumulated within the pages of Groupwork over almost two decades.