Social Work with Groups: A Comprehensive Worktext

by Charles Zastrow

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 A COMPREHENSIVE WORKBOOK, Zastrow discusses topics that are central to a successful understanding of group 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 Cengage support for existing users of CourseMate will end of 8/1/2020.Important Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version.

Genres: Textbooks, Social Work

672 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 1985

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[CZERINA CASTELLO · Rating 4 out of 5]

Helped me a lot.