Mutual Aid Groups, Vulnerable And Resilient Populations, And The Life Cycle
Contributors: Alex Gitterman (Editor); Lawrence Shulman (Editor)
Edition: 3RD edition
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: March 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 672
ISBN-13: 9780231128858
Subjects: Public Policy - Social Services & Welfare; General; Social Science; Politics / Current Events; Life cycle, Human; Self-help groups; Social group work; United States; Sociology
First sentence: THE PERSPECTIVE on practice presented in this book emerges from the convergence of five major sets of ideas: a life model for understanding and helping people, oppression psychology, vulnerability, resilience, a mutual aid approach to group work, and a theory of practice that views the role of the worker as mediating the individual-group-environment engagement.