The Skills of Helping Individuals, Families, Groups, and Communities

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Lawrence Shulman's THE SKILLS OF HELPING INDIVIDUALS, FAMILIES, GROUPS, AND COMMUNITIES WITH CD, 6e International Edition, demonstrates how common elements, core processes, and skills exist across all stages of helping and throughout work with all populations--including individuals, families, groups, and communities. It defines, illustrates, and teaches helping skills and provides manageable models for understanding them. The text also looks at the underlying process and its associated set of core skills. Two CD-ROMS accompany the text and are designed to enhance students' learning experience. THE INTERACTIVE SKILLS OF HELPING CD-ROM and WORKSHOP CD-ROM FOR THE SKILLS OF HELPING illustrate the text's core skills and feature video excerpts of an interactive workshop led by Dr. Shulman. Examples depict social workers in action and directly connect theory and research to the realities of working with clients. Key Feature AUTHOR'S INTERACTIONAL HELPING MODEL: The book's clear organization begins with a thorough explanation of Lawrence Shulman's interactional helping model. The book outlines the skills of working with individuals, including ways to tune in to the client and self, values and ethics, and the phases of the helping process. Additional parts address work with families, groups, communities, and organizations BLEND OF EMPIRICAL RESEARCH AND PRACTICE WISDOM: Findings drawn from Shulman's studies of social work practice, supervision, management, and medical practice, as well as research from other leading practitioners, provide empirical support for consistent core skills and elements of practice. The book reviews evidence-based practice models, but also draws on practice wisdom. VARIETY OF HELPING SITUATIONS: The author addresses a wide range of helping situations, enabling any social worker to find useful models to incorporate into his or her work. A cumulative index of case examples organized by topics allows students to quickly find examples in the book that relate to their own practice interests. ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLES: The book's strong illustrative examples connect current theory and research on resilience, diversity, cognitive-behavioral approaches, stages of change theory, and feminist theory. EMPHASIS ON COMMUNITY: A separate chapter focuses on social work in the community.

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Lawrence Shulman is a professor, as well as a former dean, in the School of Social Work at the State University of New York, Buffalo campus. A social work practitioner educator for more than 40 years, he has done extensive research on the core helping skills in social work practice, supervision, and child welfare and school violence. Dr. Shulman has published numerous articles and monographs on direct practice and is the author or coeditor of nine books. He also was the coeditor of the JOURNAL OF CLINICAL SUPERVISION and serves on five other editorial boards. In addition, Dr. Shulman 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 and Underlying Assumptions. Part I: A MODEL OF THE HELPING PROCESS. 1. An Interactional Approach to Helping. 2. Human Behavior and the Social Environment. Part II: SOCIAL WORK WITH INDIVIDUALS. 3. The Preliminary Phase of Work. 4. Beginnings and the Contracting Skills. 5. Skills in the Work Phase. 6. Endings and Transitions. Part III: SOCIAL WORK WITH FAMILIES. 7. The Preliminary and Beginning Phasesin Family Practice. 8. The Middle and Ending Phases in Family Practice. 9. Variations in Family Practice. Part IV: SOCIAL WORK WITH GROUPS. 10. The Preliminary Phase in Group Practice: The Group as a Mutual-Aid System. 11. The Beginning Phase in the Group. 12. The Work Phase in the Group. 13. Working with the Individual and the Group. 14. Endings and Transitions with Groups. Part V: SOCIAL WORK WITH THE SECOND CLIENT: THE AGENCY SYSTEM, THE COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL POLICY PRACTICE. 15. Professional Impact and Helping Clients Negotiate the System. 16. Social Work Practice in the Community. 17. Macro Social Work Practice and Social Policy Change. Part VI: PRACTICE MODELS AND EVIDENCED-BASED PRACTICE. 18. Some Additional Social Work Perspectives and Evidenced-Based Practice. Part VII: THE IMPACT ON PRACTICE OF POLICY, ETHICS AND LEGISLATION. 19. The Impact of Agency Culture, Ethics, Legislation and Evaluation. Glossary. References. Index of Case Examples. Name Index. Subject Index.