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

* 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' Interests in Programming * Hip-Hop Culture * The Lab Group Work Program Model: Activity-Centered Therapy (ACT) * Setting Up The Lab * Who Is in The Lab? * The Lab in Action * Conclusion * Chapter 10. Talking Circles: A Traditional Form of Group Work * Chapter 11. New Perspectives in Group Work for Working with Sexually Abused African-American Children * Child Sexual Abuse: Race, Culture, and Ethnicity * An Africentric Group Work Model for Working with African-American Girls * Conclusion * Chapter 12. Worker Self-Disclosure in Group Work * Introduction * Defining Self-Disclosure * Social Group Work * Conclusions * Chapter 13. Meals Made Easy: A Group Program at a Food Bank for Parents of Young Children * Introduction * Setting and Methodology * Results * Discussion * Summary and Conclusions * Chapter 14. A Social Group Worker As a Resident in an Independent Living Facility * Introduction * Interest Groups * Support Groups * Discussion Groups * Task Groups * Service to the Community * Outcomes * Chapter 15. From Fragile to Wild: Group Work As the Transforming Element in Redressing Social Inequities for Older Women * The Context * Consciousness-Building Groups * Competency-Building Groups * Social Capital-Building Groups * Community-Building Groups * Full Citizenship-Building Groups * Worker Roles * Conclusion * Section IV: Social Justice in Social Work Education and Research for Social Work with Groups * Chapter 16. Group Passage to the Profession: The Field Seminar in Social Work Education * Introduction * Field Education and Professional Development * Field Seminar As a Group Experience * Field Seminar Journey * Concluding Comments * Chapter 17. Justice in Teaching: Teaching As Group Work * Constructivist Paradigm of Teaching and Learning * Rationale for Constructivist Teaching Methods in Social Work Education * Grounded Dis