Crossing Boundaries and Developing Alliances Through Group Work

Jocelyn Lindsay, Daniel Turcotte, Estelle Hopmeyer

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2023
• eBook ISBN: 9781000950915
• Topic: Medicine
• Subtopic: Health Care Delivery

Knock down cultural walls to build a foundation for successful social group work!

Crossing Boundaries and Developing Alliances Through Group Work examines how changing technological, economic, and social conditions require social workers to create alliances to better serve their clients. The book addresses how the basic principles and techniques of group work can transcend geographical and cultural boundaries when dealing with issues such as HIV/AIDS, parenting, adoption, and sex offenses. A distinguished panel of practitioners, researchers, and educators details the strategies used to establish cultural and linguistic border crossings that help reduce the limits social workers face.

Crossing Boundaries and Developing Alliances Through Group Work addresses the multicultural dimension of social work and the benefits of a junction between research and intervention, including how the convergence with other fields of knowledge (music, drama, the arts, etc.) can contribute to a more effective intervention methodology. The book examines partnerships between research teams and agencies, field placements, collaborations between schools and practice settings, building a learning community, service education, the arrival of new technologies (teleconferencing, the Internet), reasserting group work fundamentals, and how mixing and matching methodologies can produce a more effective intervention strategy.

Topics examined in Crossing Boundaries and Developing Alliances Through Group Work include:

• working with AIDS patients in early recovery from substance abuse
• integrating group work with mutual aid to treat male sex offenders
• using teleconferencing groups with families involved in organ donation
• conducting group interventions with mentally ill parents
• working with families dealing with failed adoptions
• developing a mediating group for birth parent self-assessment
• and much more!

Crossing Boundaries and Developing Alliances Through Group Work is an essential tool for dealing with cross-cultural conflicts. It's equally valuable as a professional guide for clinicians and therapists, policy developers, supervisors, and administrators, and as a textbook or supplemental text in courses dealing with clinical, international, and intercultural group work, advanced group work, support groups, and mental health services.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title Page
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• About the Editors
• Contributors
• Board of Directors, 1996-1997 The Association for the Advancementof Social Work with Groups, Inc., An International Professional Organization
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction. Beyond Our Frontiers: The Development of Alliances Through Group Work
• Chapter 1. Towards an International Developmentof Group Work: Establishing Cultural and Linguistic Border Crossings
• Chapter 2. Crossing Boundaries: Group Work with Persons with AIDS in Early Recovery from Substance Abuse
• Chapter 3. Where Has Real Group Work Gone?Reasserting the Fundamentals
• Chapter 4. Group Field Consulting: Building a Learning Community
• Chapter 5. Night of the Tortured Souls: Integration of Group Therapy and Mutual Aid for Treated Male Sex Offenders
• Chapter 6. Pushing the Boundary and Coming Full Circle: A Contemporary Role for Social Group Work in Service Education
• Chapter 7. The Use of Teleconferencing Focus Groups with Families Involved in Organ Donation: Dealing with Sensitive Topics
• Chapter 8. Using Groups for Research and Action: The Asian Mothers’ Support Project
• Chapter 9. Families for Reunification: A Mediating Group Model for Birth Parent Self-Assessment
• Chapter 10. Efficacy of Group Interventions with Seriously Mentally Ill Parents: A Literature Review
• Chapter 11. Post–Legal Adoption Treatment Groups: Intervening with Families Who Experience Failed Adoptions
• Index