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This stimulating book explores the many ways in which social group
workers approach diversity. Capturing the Power of Diversity
represents a range of interests and approaches to the challenges
faced by group workers throughout the world. It illustrates the
complexity, creativity, and excitement of the diversity concept and
it explores how practitioners manage and adjust to diversity and
use its power constructively. The contributing authors discuss
macro approaches to inequality in social, political, and economic
spheres and address concerns about the fit of group work into the
social work curriculum and practitioners'techniques. In this
guidebook, readers can discover how to emphasize social group work
to enhance the education of social work students and to help
professionals deal more effectively with cultural
diversity.Capturing the Power of Diversity covers practice, theory
building, teaching, research, and various age and ethnic groups.
Chapters explore topics related to: the value and importance of
using social group work practice at the macro level educational and
practice dimensions of diversity the necessity of dealing with
inequality the macro system and its economic and political
consequences teaching and practice issues emerging from the effects
of race and class on practiceAn enlightening reference and guide,
Capturing the Power of Diversity is a much-needed source of
information for social work practitioners and students who are
interested in how diversity impacts social group work and are
curious as to how to make group work more effective.
This stimulating book explores the many ways in which social group
workers approach diversity. Capturing the Power of Diversity
represents a range of interests and approaches to the challenges
faced by group workers throughout the world. It illustrates the
complexity, creativity, and excitement of the diversity concept and
it explores how practitioners manage and adjust to diversity and
use its power constructively. The contributing authors discuss
macro approaches to inequality in social, political, and economic
spheres and address concerns about the fit of group work into the
social work curriculum and practitioners'techniques. In this
guidebook, readers can discover how to emphasize social group work
to enhance the education of social work students and to help
professionals deal more effectively with cultural
diversity.Capturing the Power of Diversity covers practice, theory
building, teaching, research, and various age and ethnic groups.
Chapters explore topics related to: the value and importance of
using social group work practice at the macro level educational and
practice dimensions of diversity the necessity of dealing with
inequality the macro system and its economic and political
consequences teaching and practice issues emerging from the effects
of race and class on practiceAn enlightening reference and guide,
Capturing the Power of Diversity is a much-needed source of
information for social work practitioners and students who are
interested in how diversity impacts social group work and are
curious as to how to make group work more effective.
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