White Gloves and Cracked Vases: How Metaphors Help Group Workers Construct New Perspectives and Responses

Msw, Trudy K. Duffy

doi:10.1300/j009v24n03_07

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“…Social work academics have long documented the function of metaphors and symbolism within social group work practice (Brandler & Roman, 1991;Duffy, 2001;Northen & Kurland, 2001). Social group workers commonly use the visual arts, athletics, drama or writing, all vast mediums, rich in metaphors and symbolism.…”

Section: Holds Symbolic Potentialmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Punch, A Stitch, A Bell: The Power of Nondeliberative Practice in Social Group Work

Wright¹

2016

Social Work with Groups

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Section: Holds Symbolic Potentialmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Punch, A Stitch, A Bell: The Power of Nondeliberative Practice in Social Group Work

Wright¹

2016

Social Work with Groups

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“…Skills developed in activity mastery can then be applied as metaphors for the talk therapy, or "processing," portion of the work (Duffy, 2006;Wright, 2006). As in mutualaid systems, in which members are supposed to take charge of the group's affairs in improv performances, it is the players themselves who make the choices that move the scenes along.…”

Section: Active Listeningmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Brilliant Genius: Using Improv Comedy in Social Work Groups

Steitzer

2011

Social Work With Groups

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This article explores the historical and theoretical connections between group social work and improvisation (improv) comedy. Improv comedy can trace its American roots back to Hull House in Chicago and places a strong emphasis on active listening, risk taking, individual growth, and group mind. This article looks at the potential benefits that improv can provide to groups and individual group members. It provides practical suggestions for workers interested in incorporating performance-based activity in their practice. Ultimately, this article shows how an improv comedy performance troupe can function as a mutual aid social work group.

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“…As Duffy (2001) states, metaphors can help group members develop self-awareness. She sees the metaphor as binding opportunities for self-understanding to time.…”

Section: Therapeutic Poetrymentioning

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A Poem to Memorialize an Experiential Focal Group1

Bordelon

2005

Clin Soc Work J

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Thirteen women enrolled in a master's level group therapy class participated in an experiential focal group culminating in the writing of a poem. The poem was part of the framework developed by the students to evaluate an in-class personal and professional growth experience. The poem provided greater meaning to the participants than a mere letter grade assigned by the professor for class participation alone. The emotional intensity created through class participation in a group therapy class lends itself to memorializing a deeply shared temporal experience in a form of expression that is apposite to a poem.

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White Gloves and Cracked Vases: How Metaphors Help Group Workers Construct New Perspectives and Responses

Cited by 8 publications

References 16 publications

A Punch, A Stitch, A Bell: The Power of Nondeliberative Practice in Social Group Work

A Punch, A Stitch, A Bell: The Power of Nondeliberative Practice in Social Group Work

The Brilliant Genius: Using Improv Comedy in Social Work Groups

A Poem to Memorialize an Experiential Focal Group1

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