Social Work with Groups: Social Justice Through Personal, Community, and Societal Change

The examples you'll find in Social Work with Groups: Social Justice Through Personal, Community, and Societal Change will help you to assist groups to gain a sense of empowerment and create change in their own lives and communities. You'll meet social workers who use hip-hop music to reach out to troubled adolescents, practitioners who blend traditional First Nations talking circles with other therapy methods, a retired professor who transforms the way her fellow senior living centre residents participate in their world, and fathers of children with spina-bifida who help each other through an online discussion group.

Table of Contents:
* About the Editors * Contributors * Foreword * Acknowledgments * Introduction * Section I: Social Justice and Social Work with Groups * Chapter 1. Social Justice: A Global Perspective * Chapter 2. Social Justice and Social Work with Groups: Fragile—Handle with Care * Introduction: An Image of Fragility * Fragility and Injustice * Group Practice As Social Justice Practice * Conclusion: An Image of Practice * Chapter 3. The Meaning, Scope, and Context of the Concept of Social Justice in Social Work with Groups * Distributive Justice * Procedural Justice * Retributive Justice * Conclusion * Chapter 4. Current Innovations in Social Work with Groups to Address Issues of Social Justice * Examples of Innovative Practice * Barriers * Opportunities * What’s to Be Done? * Section II: Social Justice in Theory for Social Work with Groups * Chapter 5. Group Work and Social Justice: Rhetoric or Actions? * State of the Art * Historical Context * The Debate and Arguments * The Current Social Scene * Universality of Social Justice * Toward a Definition of Justice * Value Premises of Social Justice * Values in Conflict * Scapegoating * Transforming Images * Conclusion * Chapter 6. Social Group Work, Social Justice * The Meanings of Social Justice in Social Work * The Social Goals Model * Practice Examples * Summary * Chapter 7. Culturally Grounded Approaches to Social Justice Through Social Work with Groups * Introduction * Globalization, Social Justice, and Social Work * A Culturally Grounded Approach * Group Work * Chapter 8. Social Work with Groups, Mutual Aid, and Social Justice * Section III: Social Justice in the Practice of Social Work with Groups * Chapter 9. Meet Them in The Lab: Using Hip-Hop Music Therapy Groups with Adolescents in Residential Settings * The Needs of Adolescents in Care * The Use of Group Members’ Intere

About the Author :
N. Sullivan, L. Mitchell, D. Goodman, N.C. Lang, E.S. Mesbur