{"title":"Group trauma treatment in early recovery","authors":"A. Johnson","doi":"10.1080/01609513.2019.1639240","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01609513.2019.1639240","url":null,"abstract":"This book is well researched with actual group experience evident and is user friendly, especially for a seasoned practitioner and instructive for the less experienced. The authors illustrate a ser...","PeriodicalId":39702,"journal":{"name":"Social Work with Groups","volume":"43 1","pages":"365 - 366"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/01609513.2019.1639240","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44910148","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Helping each other: a peer supervision group with facilitators of mutual aid groups","authors":"V. Calcaterra, M. Raineri","doi":"10.1080/01609513.2019.1642829","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01609513.2019.1642829","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Mutual aid groups can help people cope with life’s problems. A peer supervision group can help facilitators to better understand their role and improve their facilitating skills in mutual aid groups. Peer supervision groups aim to support facilitators ability to reflect on their difficulties in working with groups, deepen their methodological questions, and improve their understanding regarding how to best proceed as facilitators. This paper studied a peer supervision group of experts-by-experience facilitators to demonstrate the dynamics of mutual aid that characterized the group’s functioning.","PeriodicalId":39702,"journal":{"name":"Social Work with Groups","volume":"43 1","pages":"351 - 364"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/01609513.2019.1642829","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45923523","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The erosion of democracy in many countries: what should be group work’s response?","authors":"R. Ortega, C. Garvin","doi":"10.1080/01609513.2019.1656146","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01609513.2019.1656146","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In this paper we describe democracy and evidence of its erosion globally and in the US. Specific concerns about the erosion of democratic values are discussed, and how this erosion manifests in group behaviors. We call on group work to consider how the global expansion of repressive policies and practices that empower privileged and the elite impact group member participation, especially members of targeted minority groups. Through examples we demonstrate ways group work practice can champion the protection of all member voices, and preserve a structure and mechanisms that model such protections for all its participants.","PeriodicalId":39702,"journal":{"name":"Social Work with Groups","volume":"43 1","pages":"283 - 291"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/01609513.2019.1656146","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41625912","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"From the Editor: Circle Time Controversy in Raleigh","authors":"Andrew Malekoff","doi":"10.1080/01609513.2019.1688555","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01609513.2019.1688555","url":null,"abstract":"Trouble has been brewing in a school system in Raleigh, North Carolina regarding a school-based group initiative known as “Community Circles,” that was implemented to support students’ social-emoti...","PeriodicalId":39702,"journal":{"name":"Social Work with Groups","volume":"43 1","pages":"281 - 282"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/01609513.2019.1688555","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44706407","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“I am a little superhero!”: a pilot play-based group to enhance self-esteem of children from low-income families in Hong Kong","authors":"J. Wong","doi":"10.1080/01609513.2020.1826387","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01609513.2020.1826387","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Self-esteem is crucial to children’s psychological health. However, several factors can impact the development of self-esteem, including families’ income. The purpose of this article is to describe the development, implementation, and preliminary evaluation of a pilot play-based group intervention that aimed at enhancing the self-esteem and social skills of primary school-aged children from low-income families in Hong Kong. Seven children attended six 1.5-hour weekly sessions. They completed the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (RESE) before and after the implementation of the group. Participant observation and an exit questionnaire were also used to collect the data for evaluation. By the end of the group, children already showed mild but significant improvement in RESE scores. They also demonstrated enhanced self-understanding and social skills. The “superhero” theme and play-based approach successfully attracted children’s interests and provided a basis for the development of more comprehensive programs to boost the wellbeing of disadvantaged children from diverse contexts.","PeriodicalId":39702,"journal":{"name":"Social Work with Groups","volume":"44 1","pages":"181 - 192"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/01609513.2020.1826387","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41445471","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Bru redemption: group work during the covid-19 pandemic in an internally displaced people’s relief camp in Tripura, India","authors":"Ajay Saini","doi":"10.1080/01609513.2020.1827207","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01609513.2020.1827207","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Powerful governments with huge resources have failed miserably in protecting their vulnerable populations from the covid-19 crisis. In Ashapara – an internally displaced people’s makeshift relief camp in an Indian peripheral state of Tripura, an underdog group of 16 Bru people, against all the odds, has set a rare example by successfully shielding its marginalized indigenous community from the coronavirus. Besides supporting the Brus to cope with the crisis, the group has also helped its members to redeem themselves and restored their lost sense of self-worth and dignity. Such incredible stories of exceptional resilience, determination, and community solidarity give hope to the wretched of the earth, who are fighting a lone battle against the coronavirus pandemic.","PeriodicalId":39702,"journal":{"name":"Social Work with Groups","volume":"44 1","pages":"384 - 389"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/01609513.2020.1827207","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45268232","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Making the transition from casework to group work","authors":"L. Carey","doi":"10.1080/01609513.2020.1820423","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01609513.2020.1820423","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article examines the meaningful difference in mind-set that distinguishes group work from casework. It illustrates the importance of the worker making a cognitive shift from social work with individuals (casework perspective), to work with a group, which consists of multiple members (group work perspective). This mind-set transition utilizes the framework of thinking group. The guiding principle of thinking group is viewed through the lens of group-as-a-whole first and individuals second. Trusting and empowering a group to do its work affords members the opportunity to realize the value of people who have been drawn together by common issues and the wisdom of shared experience. Excerpts from group process recordings and supervisory insight are included to illuminate the worker’s developmental process that contribute to new-found perspectives, while simultaneously becoming grounded in the group work process and its potential for member empowerment.","PeriodicalId":39702,"journal":{"name":"Social Work with Groups","volume":"44 1","pages":"139 - 151"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/01609513.2020.1820423","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49008231","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reaching out to slum dwellers to address starvation during the 2020 pandemic in India","authors":"A. Banshkar, Amu Vinzuda","doi":"10.1080/01609513.2020.1819046","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01609513.2020.1819046","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The 2020 pandemic has affected people living in almost every part of the earth. The people who dwell in the slums of India are among most vulnerable. Many have faced starvation every day since the nationwide lockdown in India. Four young social workers formed the “Dalit Seva Group”, in an effort to help slum dwellers in their region of India whose livelihoods consisted of rag picking, beggary, domestic work, and daily wage work. The group, in collaboration with non-government organizations, developed a plan to offer relief to this most vulnerable population.","PeriodicalId":39702,"journal":{"name":"Social Work with Groups","volume":"44 1","pages":"193 - 200"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/01609513.2020.1819046","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47720987","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Transformation of a recreational youth group into community service group during the COVID-19 pandemic","authors":"Firdous Barbhuiya, Aaquib Zabed Mazmuder","doi":"10.1080/01609513.2020.1807774","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01609513.2020.1807774","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This narrative is based on the solidarity of a recreational youth group during the COVID-19 pandemic. (Note: Youth refers to older adolescents and young adults, 17–28). The narrative describes the journey and transformation of the youth group from playing cricket to the engagement in community service during the lockdown period. This paper also presents how the presence of the group shifted from physical to a digital platform, and the focus turned from recreation to social support; with that change in the focus, how a small group of youths turned into a larger group to mobilize and utilize resources for community service during the crisis time.","PeriodicalId":39702,"journal":{"name":"Social Work with Groups","volume":"44 1","pages":"53 - 59"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/01609513.2020.1807774","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46031892","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“A stitch in time”: group work during the covid-19 scare in the Nicobar Islands, India","authors":"Ajay Saini","doi":"10.1080/01609513.2020.1816765","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01609513.2020.1816765","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT When India suddenly went into its first coronavirus-induced nationwide lockdown in March 2020, several members of a historically isolated indigenous community in the eastern Indian ocean- the Nicobarese, began to panic. Their leaders came together and formed a group to boost community solidarity and helped the vulnerable indigenes to safely navigate through the crisis. In these uncertain times of Covid-19, when the “modern” world appears more fissured than ever, leaving its “others” to fend for themselves; the Nicobarese’s group has set an example for everyone to follow.","PeriodicalId":39702,"journal":{"name":"Social Work with Groups","volume":"44 1","pages":"17 - 22"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/01609513.2020.1816765","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48203588","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}