Mutual aid groups, vulnerable populations, and the life cycle / edited by Alex Gitterman, Lawrence Shulman.

Other author Gitterman, Alex, 1938-
Other author Shulman, Lawrence.
Format Book
Edition2nd ed.
Publication InfoNew York : Columbia University Press, ©1994.
Descriptionxiv, 448 pages ; 25 cm
Subjects

Contents The life model, mutual aid, oppression, and the mediating function / Lawrence Shulman and Alex Gitterman -- Group work method / Lawrence Shulman -- Developing a new group service : strategies and skills / Alex Gitterman -- The lost and found group : group work and bereaved children / Joyce Vastola, Amy Nierenberg, and Elizabeth H. Graham -- Feelings of shame : siblings of handicapped children / Judith S. Bloch, Judith Margolis, and Martin Seitz -- In double jeopardy : preadolescents in the inner city / Carol Irizarry and Yetta H. Appel -- "Listen to us!" : young adolescents in urban schools / Lois Levinsky and Kathleen McAleer -- Sharing the hurt : adolescents in a residential setting / Alice Nadelman -- No one is alone : groups during the AIDS pandemic / George S. Getzel -- Talking like "real people" : the "Straight Ahead" prison group / Jeffrey Albert.
Contents Sharing the secrets : women's groups for sexual abuse survivors / Linda Yael Schiller and Bonnie Zimmer -- Speaking the unspoken : parents of sexually victimized children / Margaret J. Jones -- Confronting responsibility : men who batter their wives / Dale Trimble -- Agents of change : a group of women in a shelter / Jennifer A. Brown -- No place to go : homeless women / Judith A.B. Lee -- Getting connected : institutionalized schizophrenic women / Dorothy Poynter-Berg -- Coping with a nightmare : Hispanic parents of children with cancer / Diana S. Schaefer and Daniela Pozzaglia -- Healing the hurts : single parents / Lawrence Shulman -- Dealing with the death of a group member : visually impaired elderly / Alberta L. Orr -- The fight against hopelessness and despair : institutionalized aged / Toby Berman-Rossi -- The concept of mutual aid / Judith A.B. Lee and Carol R. Swenson.
General noteRev. ed. of: Mutual aid groups and the life cycle. 1986.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Other title Mutual aid groups and the life cycle.
LCCN 93031667
ISBN0231082886 (acid-free paper)
ISBN0231082894 (pbk.)