Mutual Aid Groups, Vulnerable and Resilient Populations, and the Life Cycle

Edited by Alex Gitterman and Lawrence Shulman

third edition
April, 2005
Cloth, 672 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-12884-1
$94.00 / £55.50

"[An] excellent contribution to the literature on social work with groups and deserves to be read by every social worker." — Social Work With Groups

"The long awaited third edition of Gitterman and Shulman's third volume, Mutual Aid Groups, Vulnerable and Resilient Populations, and the Life Cycle, is a scholarly paean to the power of mutual aid and social work with groups. The three conceptual chapters have been revised extensively, and six new practical chapters have been added. Every unit in the book demonstrates the resilience of vulnerable group members, their ability to participate in the mutual aid process and to make use of the strengths-based perspective that always has been intrinsic in a good group work practice. The collection is a major accomplishment that will be of great use to practitioners and academics for many years to come." — Robert Salmon, DSW, Professor, Hunter College, School of Social Work

Related Subjects

• Social Work

About the Author

Alex Gitterman is a professor at the University of Connecticut School of Social Work and past president of the Association for the Advancement of Social Work with Groups. He is the editor of The Handbook of Social Work Practice with Vulnerable and Resilient Populations, winner of the Robert Wood Johnson Award for excellence; the coauthor (with Carel Germain) of The Life Model of Social Work Practice: Advances in Theory and Practice, 2d ed.; and the coeditor of Public Health Social Work in Maternal and Child Health: A Forward Plan. Lawrence Shulman is a professor at the School of Social Work at the State University of New York at Buffalo. He is the author or coeditor of seven books, including The Skills of Helping Individuals, Families, and Groups, 5th ed., Interactional Social Work Practice: Toward an Empirical Theory, and Teaching the Helping Skills: A Field Instructor's Guide, 3rd ed.

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