Skills of Helping Individuals, Families, Groups, and Communities
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| Rating | : | 4.64 (942 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 087581414X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 884 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-09-29 |
| Language | : | English |
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Shulman is a recipient of the 2014 Significant Lifetime Achievement in Social Work Education Award, awarded by the Council of Social Work Education. Dr. . He also was the coeditor of the JOURNAL OF CLINICAL SUPERVISION and serves on five other editorial boards. Shulman has published numerous articles and monographs on direct p
A range of helping situations are addressed so that social workers can find useful models to incorporate into their own work. The book also looks at the underlying process and its associated set of core skills. It defines, illustrates, and teaches helping skills and provides manageable models for understanding them. 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.. This text focuses on the skills social workers use in the helping process
Direct Practice for Dummies It's a shame that this book continues to find it's way into the required reading lists in graduate social work classes.This book illustrates the tasks of interviewing and intervention in a very simplified and concrete fashion. In an introductory text, this is acceptable. However, in describing the "skills of helping" there is little if any attention given to an overarching theory of how people think, feel and behave. Intervention and theory inform one another in a continuous feedback loop. To presume to teach intervention without teaching a model of human behavior . A Cookbook for Disaster A Customer I read this book way back in graduate school. Let's just say if you have two or more days worth of clinical practice you will know that clients/customers/consumers don't always respond the Shulman's cookbook style examples would lead you to believe they would. I gave two stars because there were in fact some VERY general informational type items in the books, descriptions of issues that might be useful to the complete novice to social work. I am aware that this is a standard in social work schools everywhere and I can't think of a reason why! Do professors not read. This is a great book for anyone wanting to learn the basics of Dana F Stewart This is a great book for anyone wanting to learn the basics of counseling. I gave it to my best friend who is currently getting her Masters in school counseling. I gave it to her because we used it years ago in my undergraduate class on therapy, and it has been a source of information and clarification for years. I adore reading Shulman because his writing is so clear and he gives several examples of the topic he is teaching. I cannot recommend this book enough. Even after years in the field and academia, I still reference this book when I have questions.
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. About the Author 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. Recognized for his dedication to excellence in scholarship and research, pedagogy and curriculum development, and organizational leadership, Dr. Shulman is a recipient of the 2014 Significant Lifetime Achievement in S