Offering innovative useful guidelines for effectively composing new groups and...Offering innovative useful guidelines for effectively composing new groups and modifying old ones the long-awaited second edition of Harvey J. Bertcher′s Creating Groups has been updated revised and expanded. This redesigned new edition is unique...more
Offering innovative useful guidelines for effectively composing new groups and...Offering innovative useful guidelines for effectively composing new groups and modifying old ones the long-awaited second edition of Harvey J. Bertcher′s Creating Groups has been updated revised and expanded. This redesigned new edition is unique...more
Built around a single case study Creating New Agency Programs clearly illustra...Built around a single case study Creating New Agency Programs clearly illustrates how to effectively plan implement and evaluate a small scale social program. Each step in the planning process is introduced and described in a way that allows the...more
The new edition of this popular guide offers lively and clear descriptions of ...The new edition of this popular guide offers lively and clear descriptions of basic techniques for attaining group success. Detailed discussion of when how and why to use the techniques are included along with concrete examples in dramatized...more
Published in cooperation with the University of Michigan School of Social Work...Published in cooperation with the University of Michigan School of Social Work As a counselor or therapist wouldn′t it be useful to have a resource that clearly presents effective how-to guidelines for rehabilitating juvenile offenders? In Group...more
This book focuses on relatively hard-core alcoholics: clients who have not res...This book focuses on relatively hard-core alcoholics: clients who have not responded to the usual educational treatment programs. ′′Our objective is to provide a different approach to helping those clients who are not easily convinced the...more
Thoroughly revised enlarged and redesigned the Second Edition of this successf...Thoroughly revised enlarged and redesigned the Second Edition of this successful book presents useful guidelines for effectively composing new groups and modifying existing ones. The authors provide techniques and exercises based on the most recent...more
This work should serve as a sound foundation for students and practitioners as...This work should serve as a sound foundation for students and practitioners as they begin their study of the significance of various groups in social work practice. --Choice Collective problem solving: a powerful and effective means of assessing a...more
This work should serve as a sound foundation for students and practitioners as...This work should serve as a sound foundation for students and practitioners as they begin their study of the significance of various groups in social work practice. --Choice Collective problem solving: a powerful and effective means of assessing a...more
Understanding communication--or more precisely how to communicate--is a vital ...Understanding communication--or more precisely how to communicate--is a vital part of any human service practitioner′s job. This incisive volume brings recent developments in communication (information theories communication frameworks new ideas...more
A practical guide to recently developed management principles Improving Organi...A practical guide to recently developed management principles Improving Organizational Performance takes the reader beyond the basics of the TQM fad to the core concepts that undergird it. The book provides a basic reference and field guide for...more
Now that business government and other fields are embracing Total Quality Mana...Now that business government and other fields are embracing Total Quality Management (TQM) as their management philosphy TQM may also hold the solution for problems that exist in human services organizations today. After a brief history of TQM the...more
Built around a single case study Creating New Agency Programs clearly illustra...Built around a single case study Creating New Agency Programs clearly illustrates how to effectively plan implement and evaluate a small scale social program. Each step in the planning process is introduced and described in a way that allows the...more
The first volume to address both self-help and support groups and provide a cl...The first volume to address both self-help and support groups and provide a clear distinction between the two Self-Help and Support Groups dispels misunderstandings and inaccurate assumptions about how they function whom they attract and how they...more
This timely new book presents the concepts context and applications of a probl...This timely new book presents the concepts context and applications of a problem-solving approach to group work with children and adolescents. This comprehensive new volume covers it all. It addresses issues associated with assessment problem...more