Book Reviews : Magistrates Summary Jurisdiction—Guide to Powers of Punishment John A. Henman Justice of the Peace. 4s
| Published date | 01 June 1969 |
| Author | F.V. Jarvis |
| Date | 01 June 1969 |
| DOI | 10.1177/026455056901500211 |
| Subject Matter | Articles |
In order to test the book in action, I
Social Work with Groups
gave it to a young probation officer to
M. K. McCullough and Peter J. Ely
see how often he would use it. He found
Routledge &
Kegan Paul, 1968. 16s.
no opportunity of using it, but did think
of
118 pp.
one question the book might have
answered had it been handy at the timc
This excellent little introductory book
he needed it. Another young officer who
on social work with groups should be
bought it didn’t use it at all, although
in the library of every university or in-
his student thought that it was very use-
stitute in which social workers learn
ful-maybe he was in the habit of using
their profession. It contains chapters on
books. I have also, to be fair, heard of
the setting for group work, on group in-
other offices where some people have
teraction, on play groups with children,
found the manual quite useful. But this
on groups in institutions and in social
small experiment in practice leads me to
work education; summaries of the main
feel that this manual will not find much
psychoanalytic theories; suggested read-
immediate use because it does not seem
ing ; and gives a full bibliography, slight-
to be very traditional for probation
ly marred by a few minor mistakes (e.g.
(,officers to &dquo;look things up&dquo;, in the way
page 114 - Miller, D.H., not R.H.).
that comes easily to clerks and the like.
The material is simple and clearly pre-
Perhaps one might say that this was
sented, yet rich. It is also full of con-
not a fair test and that to have waited
vincing examples and illuminating meta-
until a younger colleague asked an ad-
phors. Take the question of the group
ministrative-type question and then re-
conductor bringing into the open that
ferred him to Jarvis might have pro-
some, at least. of the hostility that may
duced better results and at the same time
be expressed by participants about var-
have familiarised that colleague with the
ious authority figures may really...
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