Groupwork Practice in Social Work

Lindsay, who has experience in groupwork in the probation service and as a social work lecturer in the UK, and Orton, an educator and learning facilitator in the UK, offer a guide to the underlying theory, planning, setup, facilitation, and evaluation of small helping groups. They explain what groupwork is, why it helps, the characteristics of small helping groups, and the advantages, disadvantages, and limitations of groupwork in social work intervention; planning aspects; facilitation and co-facilitation, including skills like listening, questioning, and intervention categories; group processes and stages; programming and activities; issues of power and oppression; coping with unexpected or unhelpful responses; and monitoring, recording, and evaluating the work. Updated to align with the UK's Professional Capabilities Framework for Social Work, this edition adds new examples of groupwork opportunities that present themselves with specific service-user populations in different settings and a new section on learning and being assessed in a group. Annotation c2014 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)