Synopses & Reviews
Shulman's text introduces a model for the helping process based on an 'interactional' approach, which uses a number of theories and skills to build on the client-helper relationship. By presenting the core processes and skills in the chapters on work with individuals, Shulman shows how common elements exist across stages of helping and across different populations. These processes and skills reappear in the discussions of group, family, and community work. New copies of this text are accompanied by two CD-ROMs: one that illustrates the core skills covered in the text, and another that features video excerpts of an interactive workshop conducted by Larry Shulman.
Review
"The writing style is very engaging and lively...The text is replete with social worker-client system dialog..."
Synopsis
This text focuses on the skills social workers use in the helping process. It defines, illustrates, and teaches helping skills and provides manageable models for understanding them. The book also looks at the underlying process and its associated set of core skills. A range of helping situations are addressed so that social workers can find useful models to incorporate into their own work. The core processes and skills are identified in the chapters on work with individuals and reappear in the discussions of group, family, and community work.
Synopsis
This text focuses on the skills social workers use in the helping process. It defines, illustrates, and teaches helping skills and provides manageable models for understanding them. The book also looks at the underlying process and its associated set of core skills. A range of helping situations are addressed so that social workers can find useful models to incorporate into their own work. The core processes and skills are identified in the chapters on work with individuals and reappear in the discussions of group, family, and community work.
Description
Includes bibliographical references (p. 845-854) and indexes.
About the Author
Lawrence Shulman is currently a professor, also having served as Dean in the School of Social Work at the State University of New York, Buffalo campus. He has been a social work practitioner educator for more than 40 years and has done extensive research on the core helping skills in social work practice, supervision, and child welfare and school violence. He has published numerous articles and monographs on direct practice and is the author or coeditor of nine books. Dr. Shulman is the coeditor of the JOURNAL OF CLINICAL SUPERVISION, and he serves on five other editorial boards. He also is the cofounder and cochair of the International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Clinical Supervision sponsored by the National Institutes of Health and the Haworth Press.
Table of Contents
Introduction. Part I: A MODEL OF THE HELPING PROCESS. 1. An Interactional Approach to Helping. Part II: SOCIAL WORK WITH INDIVIDUALS. 2. The Preliminary Phase of Work. 3. Beginnings and the Contracting Skills. 4. Skills in the Work Phase. 5. Endings and Transitions. Part III. SOCIAL WORK WITH FAMILIES. 6. Family Practice in the Social Work Context. 7. Problem-Centered Family Practice. Part IV: SOCIAL WORK WITH GROUPS. 8. The Group as a Mutual Aid System. 9. Group Formation. 10. The Beginning Phase of with Groups. 11. The Work Phase in the Group. 12. Working with the Individual in the Group. 13. Endings and Transitions with Groups. 14. Some Variant Elements in Group Practice. Part V: SOCIAL WORK WITH THE SYSTEM. 15. Professional Impact and Helping Clients to Negotiate the System. 16. Social Work in the Community. 17. The Impact of Agency Culture, Legislation and Ethics on Social Work Practice. Glossary. Reference List.