Handbook of Social Work with Groups

L.C.C. Handbook of Mental Health Social Work

Handbook of Mental Health Social Work

set up in 1943 by the Medical Officer of Health of the L.C.C. in connection with the re-organization of the Council's Mental Health Services, and was compiled primarily for the use of Psychiatric and Mental Deficiency Social Workers in the Public Health Department. The actual information it contains is .therefore related to the methods used by one particular Authority, but so varied are the top...

Handbook of Social Psychology

later consideration of social cultural realities, Stereotypes and Myths, would have fallen into an easy sequence. The author's present arrangement may lead the student into some confusion of thought and the begging of many questions. For in the very nature of the subject it is still a matter for speculation and careful discussion of facts as to whether social or psychological criteria have prio...

Social Exchange and Emotional Investment in Work Groups

This study applied a social exchange perspective to examine three related aspects of work group behavior: individuals' assessment of the personal costs and rewards of group membership, the overall level of emotional investment in a group, and the external evaluation of group performance. Regression analyses of survey data from 28 ongoing student work groups (134 individuals) indicated that perc...

Social Work with Children

by Juliet Berry Rout ledge and Kegan Paul (library of Social Work), 90p Getting through this book is like getting along a public footpath which has become overgrown with brambles; you've got a vague idea where you're going, but the spikes keep catching in the sleeves of your woolly. Let's have a quote to see if we can catch the stylistic flavour: 'When the care of an immigrant toddler is distri...