Download or read book The Skills of Helping Individuals, Families, Groups and Communities written by Lawrence Shulman and published by Brooks Cole. This book was released on 1999 with total page 920 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text focuses on the skills social workers use in the helping process. It defines, illustrates, and teaches helping skills and provides manageable models for understanding them. The book also looks at the underlying process and its associated set of core skills. A range of helping situations are addressed so that social workers can find useful models to incorporate into their own work. The core processes and skills are identified in the chapters on work with individuals and reappear in the discussions of group, family, and community work.