Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part 1 Social Competence and Social Noncompetence

1. The Concepts of Social Competence and Social Noncompetence

2. Individual Social Competence: The Necessary Condition for Group Forming and Group Functioning

3. Forms of Socially Noncompetent Interaction Requiring Special Adaptations to Social Work Practice with Groups

Part 2 Group Work Practice Theory Essential to Practice with Both Socially Competent and Socially Unskilled Populations

4. The Small Group in Life and in Social Work Practice: Forms and Functions

5. Concurrent Interventions in Multiple Domains: The Essence of Social Work with Groups

6. The Social Work Group as Unique Social Form: Influence of Professional Norms

7. A Broad-Range Model of Practice in the Social Work Group: Group Forms and Worker Technology

8. The Mainstream Model of Practice in Social Work Groups

9. A Specialized Practice Methodology to Promote Social Competence

Part 3 A Specialized Practice Methodology for Socially Unskilled Populations

10. Features of the Specialized Methodology for Practice with Socially Unskilled Individuals and Entities

11. Requirements for a Specialized Practice with Socially Unskilled Populations

12. Specifics of Intervention in the Pregroup Period with Socially Unskilled Populations: Adaptations to the Technology of Social Work with Groups

13. The Centrality of Actional Modes: Mobilizing Effectance

14. The Route to an Achievable Entity: How the Specialized Practice Evolves

15. Portrait of Practice with a Socially Unskilled Population

References

Index