Stories Celebrating Group Work: It's Not Always Easy to Sit on Your
Mouth celebrates the 25th anniversary of the esteemed journal
Social Work with Groups with a collection of 21 narratives from
group work practitioners and educators. These highly personal
stories from a range of social workersyoung and old, famous and not
so famousreflect each author's development and experience, serving
as both instruction and inspiration for practitioners and
educators. This unique collectionby turns humorous, moving,
profound, and down-to-earthgets to the heart of what it means to be
a member of the social work community. Each chapter of Stories
Celebrating Group Work draws on its contributor's area of expertise
and interest in a specific topic, chronicling the development of
the author's understanding, appreciation, and skill. Authors
address the everyday concerns of social work professionals, such as
maximizing mutual aid, promoting positive norms, maintaining
authority in group work, managing conflict, dealing with taboo
subjects, building a group work culture in a human services
organization, working with a co-leader, tapping the strengths of
group members, and addressing social change. The individual stories
of working with men, women, and children suffering through abuse,
homelessness, addiction, and teenage pregnancy, in places as
diverse as East Harlem, Maine, Canada, Nebraska, Long Island,
Haiti, Uruguay, help form a collegial spirit as group workers gain
insight from the theory and practice of those who went before. The
personal stories you'll find in Stories Celebrating Group Work
include: How I Became a Social Worker The Power of Group Work with
Kids How the Relational Model of Group Work Developed My Love
Affair with Stages of Group Development But I Want to Do a Real
Group Racial Difference and Human Commonality: The Worker-Client
Relationship and many more! Stories Celebrating Group Work: It's
Not Always Easy to Sit on Your Mouth is a one-of-a-kind collection
of stories, at once entertaining and educational. It's an essential
read for beginning and seasoned human services practitioners, and
educators involved with, or interested in, working with groups.
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