The Skills of Helping Individuals, Families, Groups, and Communities

by Lawrence Shulman

Lawrence Shulman's THE SKILLS OF HELPING INDIVIDUALS, FAMILIES, GROUPS, AND COMMUNITIES WITH CD, 6e, demonstrates how common elements, core processes, and skills exist across all stages of helping and throughout work with all populations—including individuals, families, groups, and communities. It defines, illustrates, and teaches helping skills and provides manageable models for understanding them. The text also looks at the underlying process and its associated set of core skills. Two valuable CD-ROMs are available to enhance your learning experience. THE INTERACTIVE SKILLS OF HELPING CD-ROM and WORKSHOP CD-ROM FOR THE SKILLS OF HELPING illustrate the text's core skills and feature video excerpts of an interactive workshop led by Dr. Shulman. Examples depict social workers in action and directly connect theory and research to the realities of working with clients.

Genres: Social Work, Psychology, School, Reference, Nonfiction

712 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1979

Reviews

[Zoe]

Honestly, I could have skipped the first term of social work school and just read this book. It taught me more than all three of my classes combined. Not that I didn't appreciate my teachers' hard work. But this really is an inspiring and important book.

[Anna]

I used this textbook when teaching a third year Social Work Direct Practice course. The students enjoyed the practical application of the textbook. The complimentary online videos were very helpful in illustrating the practice of the actual skills.

[Sena]

I read this book for my social work class this semester. This was absolutely my favorite textbook of the semester. It gives great real-life examples throughout the book and was extremely informative. This textbook is definitely not one that I will be selling back.

[Izzy Anderson]

Read this for a class – learned a lot, but it's a textbook so it wasn't a horribly enjoyable read.

[Brandi]

3 stars
A very well written textbook to help in clinical practice of social work.

[Justin]

seems like an excellent reference. hopefully I will update this as I read it in more depth

[Maya]

Стара, но много добра книга, която въвежда интерактивния подход в клиничната социална работа.
Подходяща е за всички помагащи професионалисти, които искат да развият клинични умения.
Главите, които представят работата с индивиди са на-добри, според мен.

На английски книгата е многократно преиздавана и е жалко, че няма ново издание и на български език,защото книгата е отдавна изчерпана.

[Janeen]

okay for required reading. many obvious teaching points.

[Nadezhda]

very good