Skills of Helping Individuals, Families, Groups, and Communities (with by Lawrence Shulman

Synopsis

Lawrence Shulman's THE SKILLS OF HELPING INDIVIDUALS, FAMILIES, GROUPS, AND COMMUNITIES WITH CD, 6e, demonstrates how common elements, core processes, and skills exist across all stages of helping and throughout work with all populations—including individuals, families, groups, and communities. It defines, illustrates, and teaches helping skills and provides manageable models for understanding them. The text also looks at the underlying process and its associated set of core skills. Two valuable CD-ROMs are available to enhance your learning experience. THE INTERACTIVE SKILLS OF HELPING CD-ROM and WORKSHOP CD-ROM FOR THE SKILLS OF HELPING illustrate the text's core skills and feature video excerpts of an interactive workshop led by Dr. Shulman. Examples depict social workers in action and directly connect theory and research to the realities of working with clients.

Biography

Lawrence Shulman is currently a professor, also having served as Dean in the School of Social Work at the State University of New York, Buffalo campus. He has been a social work practitioner educator for more than 40 years and has done extensive research on the core helping skills in social work practice, supervision, and child welfare and school violence. He has published numerous articles and monographs on direct practice and is the author or coeditor of nine books. Dr. Shulman is the coeditor of the JOURNAL OF CLINICAL SUPERVISION, and he serves on five other editorial boards. He also is the cofounder and cochair of the International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Clinical Supervision sponsored by the National Institutes of Health and the Haworth Press.