The Skills of Helping Individuals, Families, Groups, and Communities - Hardcover

Lawrence Shulman is a professor, as well as a former dean, in the School of Social Work at the State University of New York, Buffalo campus. A social work practitioner educator for more than 40 years, he has done extensive research on the core helping skills in social work practice, supervision, and child welfare and school violence. Dr. Shulman has published numerous articles and monographs on direct practice and is the author or coeditor of nine books. He also was the coeditor of the JOURNAL OF CLINICAL SUPERVISION and serves on five other editorial boards. In addition, Dr. Shulman 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. Recognized for his dedication to excellence in scholarship and research, pedagogy and curriculum development, and organizational leadership, Dr. Shulman is a recipient of the 2014 Significant Lifetime Achievement in Social Work Education Award, awarded by the Council of Social Work Education.

"The writing style is very engaging and lively...The text is replete with social worker-client system dialog..."

"I found the scenario (INTERACTIVE SKILLS OF HELPING) clips to be quite useful....In addition, the scenarios move student learning to a higher level of learning: application of concepts... I can imagine using the illustration as a prompt for class discussion. I also thought the debriefing sessions provided good modeling for supervision sessions....I think the workshop sessions have the potential to emphasize the concepts presented in the text and students would find the applications interesting."