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

1. The Life Model, Oppression, Vulnerability and Resilience, Mutual Aid, and the Mediating Function, by Alex Gitterman & Lawrence Shulman

2. Group Work Method, by Lawrence Shulman

3. Group Formation: Tasks, Methods and Skills, by Alex Gitterman

4. Healing Hearts: A Bereavement Group for Children, by Carolyn Knight

5. When the World No Longer Feels Safe: Helping Children through Mutual Aid, by Maxine Lynn and Danielle Nisivoccia

6. Pre-teens in Double Jeopardy: Supporting Developmental Growth Through a Natural Friendship Group, by Carol Irizarry and Yetta H. Appel

7. Listen to Us!: Young Adolescents in Urban Schools, by Lois Levinsky and Kathleen McAleer

8. Sharing the Hurt: Adolescents in a Residential Setting, by Alice Schaeefer Nadelman

9. No One is Alone: Groups During the Aids Pandemic, by George S. Getzel

10. Persons with AIDS in Substance Abusing Recovery: Managing the Interaction Between the Two, by Lawrence Shulman

11. Sharing Secrets: The Power of Women's Groups for Sexual Abuse Survivors, by Linda Yael Schiller and Bonnie Zimmer

12. From Victim to Survivor: Group Work with Men and Women Who were Sexually Abused, by Carolyn Knight

13. Uncovering Kindness and Respect: Men Who Have Practiced Violence in Intimate Relationships, by Dale Trimble

14. No Place to Go: Homeless Women and Children, by Judith A.B. Lee

15. Families Journey Towards Equilibrium: Children with Developmental Disabilities, by Judith Bloch, Joan Weinstein and Martin Seitz

16. Finding Our Way Back: Parenting Skills for Addictive Parent, by Beatrice R. Plasse

17. Healing Hurts: A Short-term Group for Separated, Widowed, and Divorced Single Parents, by Lawrence Shulman

18. Dealing with the Death of a Group Member: Visually Impaired Elderly in the Community, by Alberta L. Orr

19. The Group as a Source of Hope: Institutionalized Older Persons, by Toby Berman-Rossi

20. Accumulated Risk: Mutual Aid Groups for Elderly Persons with a Mental illness, by Timothy B. Kelly

21. Mutual Aid: A Buffer Against Risk, by Judith A.B. Lee and Carol R. Swenson

22. Contemporary Group Work Practice, by Varsha Pandya

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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