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The Structural Approach to Direct Practice in Social Work

A Social Constructionist Perspective

By: Gale Goldberg Wood,Carol T. Tully,Ruth R. Middleman

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The Structural Approach to Direct Practice in Social Work

A Social Constructionist Perspective

By: Gale Goldberg Wood,Carol T. Tully,Ruth R. Middleman

This classic text introduces students to the structural approach of social work practice, which assumes that many clients' problems arise from harmful social forces. By focusing on the construction of such realities as poverty, racism, and domestic violence, the structural approach counters the focus on individual change that is so common in our age of managed care and corporatization. For this edition Gale Goldberg Wood and Carol T. Tully have recast the text from the perspective of contemporary social constructionism without altering its main message and organization. They have added six new chapters, covering ethics, the role of the social worker as therapist and community organizer, learning and working within the organization, and the paradigm dilemma. In addition, case studies now include greater detail about the client's social context. Though much has changed since the first edition of this book was published, the need for well-trained, compassionate social workers remains. The Structural Approach to Direct Practice in Social Work continues to be an essential resource for practitioners who wish to help their clients confront oppressive social realities and affect system change through political action.

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Columbia University Press

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0231507828

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9780231507820

Teaching Secrets

The Technology in Social Work Education

By: Ruth Middleman,Gale Goldberg Wood

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Teaching Secrets

The Technology in Social Work Education

By: Ruth Middleman,Gale Goldberg Wood

Teachers and student teachers in social work will gain valuable insight into the artistry that makes truly great teaching from the accounts found in this new book. Master teachers examine the processes they use in the classroom and present them in a format that facilitates the practical application of their ideas. The teaching methods recounted here emphasize the learners as the most important component of the teaching/learning experience and demonstrate techniques to enliven and enhance the reader’s own teaching methods. This vital book focuses on teaching “technologies,” defined as bodies of knowledge or skills ordered for use, that are comprised of techniques or systematic procedures that bring the technologies to life. By utilizing the techniques and technologies portrayed in this volume, social work educators at the graduate and undergraduate levels will become more effective at reaching their students and helping them grow into professional social workers. Teaching Secrets helps teachers increase the effectiveness of their teaching by demonstrating how to pay attention to acts and nuances that stimulate and assist students in their learning. Individual chapters focus on specific classroom environments, providing practical advice to improve learning in each situation. Social work teachers will discover more effective teaching through the use of student journals, the use of self in teaching doctoral research, the use of authority, and the benefits of student-student learning in work groups. Other chapters offer practical advice on reaching different groups of students such as black teachers leading white students, white teachers leading black students, and special efforts for reaching female students. This exciting book reveals that great teachers are not born but made, and shares the secrets that will help all social work educators to develop greatness in their own classrooms.

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151

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Routledge

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1317824695

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Activities and Action in Groupwork

By: Ruth Middleman

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Activities and Action in Groupwork

By: Ruth Middleman

This helpful and practical book examines the uses of innovative activities in social groupwork with a number of different populations, such as adolescents, school-age parents and their children, the elderly, and Hispanics.

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Routledge

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1135848823

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Skills for Direct Practice in Social Work

By: Ruth R. Middleman,Gale Goldberg Wood

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Skills for Direct Practice in Social Work

By: Ruth R. Middleman,Gale Goldberg Wood

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0231055099

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The Structural Approach to Direct Practice in Social Work

The Structural Approach to Direct Practice in Social Work

Teaching Secrets

Teaching Secrets

Activities and Action in Groupwork

Activities and Action in Groupwork

Skills for Direct Practice in Social Work

Skills for Direct Practice in Social Work

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