Ruth R. Middleman and Gale Goldberg Wood are both Professors of Social Work at the Kent School of Social Work at the University of Louisville. They have collaborated for twenty years and have written books with an innovative approach to social work practice (the structural approach) and many journal articles in areas of practice: experiential approaches, perception and cognition, group work, and interviewing skills.

Preface
Introduction
I. Inner Skills
1. Perception Skills
2. Cognitive Skills
II. Interactional Skills
3. Skills for Setting the Stage
4. Skills for Dealing with Feelings
5. Skills for Dealing with Information
III. Skills For Working with Groups
6. About Groups
7. Continuous Group Skills
8. Skills for Building Groups
9. Skills for Facilitating the Work of the Group
10. Skills for Non-Talking Groups and Non-Talking Times with Groups
IV. Strategic Skills
11. Skills for Dealing with Barriers
12. Skills for Coping with Conflict
Notes
Index