Group Work with Adolescents (eBook)

Andrew Malekoff, MSW, LCSW, CASAC, is Executive Director and CEO of the North Shore Child and Family Guidance Center in Roslyn Heights, New York, where he has worked since 1977. Mr. Malekoff is Editor in Chief of Social Work with Groups: A Journal of Community and Clinical Practice, has taught as an adjunct professor at the Adelphi and New York University Schools of Social Work, and serves as a board member for the International Association for Social Work with Groups. He was named Social Work Community Practitioner of the Year by the New York State Social Work Education Association. Widely published, Mr. Malekoff has presented his work and facilitated workshops across the United States and Canada.

I. The Adolescent in Context1. Adolescent Development, Risk, and Opportunity2. Essentials for Group Work with Adolescents: Staying in the MessII. Guidelines for Group Building3. Strengths-Based Group Work with Adolescents4. Planning in Group Work: Where We Begin5. Good Beginnings in Group Work: Socializing Adolescents into the Group Culture6. What’s Going On in There?: Forming Alliances with Parents Whose Adolescent Children Join Groups7. School-Based Group Work with Adolescents: A View from the Inside Out8. Problem Solving in Group Work9. The Purposeful Use of Activities in Group Work: Innovative, Expressive, and Mindful Approaches10. The Ending Transition in Group WorkIII. Contemporary and Age-Old Themes in Group Work: Guidelines, Applications, and Practice Illustrations11. Addressing Racial and Ethnic Diversity through Group Work12. Violence and Youth: Dimensions and Interventions in Group Work13. Group Work in the Aftermath of Traumatic Events14. Adolescent Sexuality and Group Work15. Group Work as a Counterforce to Alcohol and Other Drug AbuseIV. Special Challenges for Group Workers16. The Struggle to Fit In17. On Becoming a Reflective Group Worker