distinction between casework and group work is not always clear, this may be partly due to the lack of self consciousness which characterizes the formation of many groups, and indeed the lack of agreement about aims. "Getting together" is often thought of as good-in-itself without defining the method or ultimate aim. Peter Kuenstler limits the scope of the book to "Group work with a specific pu...

a book on this subject previously. Indeed, the conception is so novel that the editor has included the interrogation mark in the title. (We wonder whether this was done before or after receiving the contributions of the various experts). Students of the social sciences, however, will agree that the time had arrived for the presentation of the data that are available for testing the validity of ...

Some social groups are higher in socioeconomic status than others and the former tend to be favored over the latter. The present research investigated whether observing group differences in wealth alone can directly cause children to prefer wealthier groups. In Experiment 1, 4-5-year-old children developed a preference for a wealthy novel group over a less wealthy group. In Experiment 2, childr...

aim and background: child social phobia is a common anxiety disorder that there is different intervention psychology treatment for it. the main purpose of this research was to determine the effect of cognitive-behavior group play therapy on social phobia in 5-11 years old children. methods and materials: in this research of quasi experimental, from among of the children who were referred to chi...

In the form of a different type of communication and different relationships motivated by not so common reasons, microblogging has come to set a new trend on social networks. Twitter.com, founded on March 2006, was the obvious choice as it is the leading microblogging platform around. In a immersive ethnographic study performed there, I've analyzed this new breed of relationships and communicat...