A-Z of Groups and Groupork [Paperback]

Launching Palgrave's new interdisciplinary Professional Keywords series, this reader-friendly reference guide distils the vast field of groupwork study and practice into digestible, yet authoritative,?chunks.?With?over?60 alphabetized?entries, it is the perfect introduction to groupwork for health and social care practice.Accountability.- Activities.- Beginnings, Middles and Endings.- Cohesion.- Collective.- Community groups.- Confidentiality.- Conflict.- Contexts.- Counselling groups.- .- Co-working.- Democracy.- Development.- Differences and similarities.- Difficulties in groups.- Encounter groups.- Evaluation.- Evidence-base.- Flash groups.- Gender.- Ground-rules.- Group as a whole.- Group dynamics.- .- Group supervision.- Group-think.- Health groups.- History of group-work.- Human development and groups.- Individuals.- Involuntary groups.- Joining and leaving.- Leadership.- Learning groups.- Manualised groups.- Membership.- Methods and Models.- .- Open and closed groups.- Organisations as groups.- Outcomes.- Planning and Preparation.- Populations.- Power.- .- Problem-solving.- Process.- Purpose.- Race.- Recording and documentation.- Recreation groups.- Reflection and group-work.- Research using groups.- Researching groups.- Residential groups.- Resources.- Roles.- Selection.- Self-help groups.- Sessions.- Silence.- Size.- Skills.- Social action.- Structure.- Subgroups.- Supervision of group-work.- Support groups.- Taboos.- Tasks.- Teamwork.- Theories.- Therapy groups.- Time.- Values.- Venue.- Virtual groups.- Work groups

Mark Doel is Emeritus Professor of Social Work at Sheffield Hallam University, UK. He is the author of many books, including Using Groupwork (2005) and The Essential Groupworker (1999) with Catherine Sawdon.

Timothy B. Kelly is Professor of Social Work at the University of Dundee, Scotland. He co-edits the journal Groupwork and has been Secretary and Vice-President of the Association for the Advancement of Sl£J