This helpful guide includes chapter outlines and a variety of classroom exercises, role plays, and issues for discussion to help students master the text's material. Can be packaged with the book; contact your local Thomson representative for details.

'This helpful guide includes chapter outlines and a variety of classroom exercises, role plays, and issues for discussion to help students master the text\'s material.'

Charles Zastrow, MSW and Ph.D., is a Professor in the MSW program at George Williams College in Williams Bay, Wisconsin, and previously taught in the Social Work Department of the University of Wisconsin, Whitewater. A Licensed Clinical Social Worker in the State of Wisconsin, he worked as a practitioner for various agencies, chaired social work accreditation site visit teams for the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE), and served on the Commission on Accreditation of CSWE. Dr. Zastrow is currently a member of the Council on Publications of CSWE and a member of the BPD board. Widely published, he has written four other textbooks: INTRODUCTION TO SOCIAL WORK AND SOCIAL WELFARE, SOCIAL WORK WITH GROUPS, SOCIAL PROBLEMS: ISSUES AND SOLUTIONS, and UNDERSTANDING HUMAN BEHAVIOR AND THE SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT (with Dr. Karen Kirst-Ashman).Karen K. Kirst-Ashman is a professor and former chairperson in the Social Work Department at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. She has written six social work textbooks and numerous publications, articles, and reviews on social work and women's issues. She also has served as a consulting editor on many social work journals. Dr. Kirst-Ashman was a board member of the CSWE from 1998 through 2001 and has served as a member of several CSWE accreditation site teams. She is certified as a licensed clinical social worker in the state of Wisconsin and has been the recipient of the University Of Wisconsin-Whitewater Roseman Award for Excellence in Teaching. She earned her BSW degree in 1972 and MSSW degree in 1973 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and her Ph.D. in Social Work at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.