Help change the world by bringing ideas of social justice into your group work practice!
Social workers who use hip-hop music to reach out to troubled adolescents. Practitioners who compare First Nations talking circles with social work practice with groups. A retired professor who transforms the way her fellow senior living center residents participate in their world. Fathers of children with spina bifida who help one another through an online discussion group. These and other examples you?ll discover in Social Work with Groups: Social Justice Through Personal, Community, and Societal Change will help you to assist groups to gain a sense of empowerment and create change in their own lives and communities.
In Social Work with Groups: Social Justice Through Personal, Community, and Societal Change you?ll also find: definitions of social justice within the context of social work a proposal to help focus on social justice in teaching guidelines for group facilitators making decisions about self-disclosure studies of innovative group work discussion of the challenges to achieving social justice in group work valuable ways to ground social group work in rich cultural traditions This new book rides the crest of the growing wave of justice in social work with groups. Culled from the proceedings of the 22nd International Symposium of the Association for the Advancement of Social Work with Groups, it gives you the innovations and current thinking of professionals who, while coming from different cultural and professional backgrounds, are focused on helping all people enjoy the same rights and opportunities. If you want to use group work to challenge social inequality, Social Work withGroups will be a welcome addition to your library. Social action that gets results has to start somewhere?let it begin with you!

Help change the world by bringing ideas of social justice into your group work practice!
Social workers who use hip-hop music to reach out to troubled adolescents. Practitioners who compare First Nations talking circles with social work practice with groups. A retired professor who transforms the way her fellow senior living center residents participate in their world. Fathers of children with spina bifida who help one another through an online discussion group. These and other examples you?ll discover in Social Work with Groups: Social Justice Through Personal, Community, and Societal Change will help you to assist groups to gain a sense of empowerment and create change in their own lives and communities.
In Social Work with Groups: Social Justice Through Personal, Community, and Societal Change you?ll also find: definitions of social justice within the context of social work a proposal to help focus on social justice in teaching guidelines for group facilitators making decisions about self-disclosure studies of innovative group work discussion of the challenges to achieving social justice in group work valuable ways to ground social group work in rich cultural traditions This new book rides the crest of the growing wave of justice in social work with groups. Culled from the proceedings of the 22nd International Symposium of the Association for the Advancement of Social Work with Groups, it gives you the innovations and current thinking of professionals who, while coming from different cultural and professional backgrounds, are focused on helping all people enjoy the same rights and opportunities. If you want to use group work to challenge social inequality, Social Work withGroups will be a welcome addition to your library. Social action that gets results has to start somewhere?let it begin with you!

Tommy McKinney is on a mission to finish a job he started a hundred years ago. The government, agents of the Catholic Church, and his own demons are closing in on him. With the help of a mysterious woman known only as Allison, can he finally put his past to rest before he runs out of time? In the third installment of the Watchmaker Series, N. Sullivan takes us into the mind of private detective Tommy McKinney, a man on the edge of sanity, as he tries to come to terms with a bloody history that haunts him while retracing the very steps that made him the man he is.

While investigating the murder of a priest in Louisiana, Tommy McKinney finds himself in the middle of a mystery involving a dangerous militia, an ancient church secret, and a stranger who seems to be following him. Can Tommy catch the killer and stop the militia before his past and an oncoming storm catch up with him? In the second installment of The Watchmaker Series, N. Sullivan takes us into the secretive world of southern Louisiana, where outsiders are suspect and secrets run as deep as pride and culture.

While investigating a murder in Buffalo, New York, private detective Tommy McKinney discovers a conspiracy leading back through the history of the city to a centuries-old cult. As the city becomes ever more dangerous for the few people he trusts, he finds links to his own shattered and mysterious past that could destroy the city he loves or save him from immortality.