Social group work involves helping individuals enhance their social functioning through purposeful group experiences. It aims to help people cope with personal, group, and community problems. The key aspects of social group work are forming groups, setting specific objectives, establishing purposeful relationships between workers and groups, individualizing to each person's needs, guiding group interactions, utilizing democratic decision making, having a flexible organizational structure, providing progressive programming, leveraging community resources, and continuously evaluating. Important skills for social group workers include relationship building, analyzing group situations, participating with and facilitating groups, addressing group feelings, developing programs, accessing resources, and evaluating outcomes.
This document defines social group work and outlines its objectives and characteristics. Social group work is defined as a method that helps individuals enhance their social functioning through purposeful group experiences. It aims to develop individuals and help them cope with personal, group, and community problems. Objectives include developing individual skills and leadership while preparing people for social change. Characteristics include being practiced by the group itself and developing human personality. The document also lists Trecker's 10 principles of social group work and the skills required, such as establishing relationships, analyzing group situations, and using community resources.
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1. The document outlines key values and skills of social group work, including establishing purposeful relationships, analyzing group situations, and participating with the group.
2. It discusses important values such as cooperation, individual initiative, freedom of participation, and high individualization in groups.
3. Social group workers should enhance individual initiative through creative cooperation while respecting each person's freedom to participate and express themselves.
This document discusses techniques for preparing social groups. It begins by defining social group work and outlining factors to consider when forming groups such as establishing a clear purpose, considering members' perspectives, and ensuring group composition allows for homogeneity. The document then discusses additional considerations like whether the group will be open or closed, optimal group size, meeting frequency and duration, and formulating group guidelines. It emphasizes the importance of preliminary individual meetings with prospective members to provide information, promote motivation, ensure needs are being met, allow for individualization, and give people choice.
Social group work involves helping individuals enhance their social functioning through purposeful group experiences. It aims to help people cope with personal, group, and community problems. The key aspects of social group work are forming groups, setting specific objectives, establishing purposeful relationships between workers and groups, individualizing to each person's needs, guiding group interactions, utilizing democratic decision making, having a flexible organizational structure, providing progressive programming, leveraging community resources, and continuously evaluating. Important skills for social group workers include relationship building, analyzing group situations, participating with and facilitating groups, addressing group feelings, developing programs, accessing resources, and evaluating outcomes.
This document defines social group work and outlines its objectives and characteristics. Social group work is defined as a method that helps individuals enhance their social functioning through purposeful group experiences. It aims to develop individuals and help them cope with personal, group, and community problems. Objectives include developing individual skills and leadership while preparing people for social change. Characteristics include being practiced by the group itself and developing human personality. The document also lists Trecker's 10 principles of social group work and the skills required, such as establishing relationships, analyzing group situations, and using community resources.
The document discusses the skills and qualities needed for social group workers, particularly in correctional settings. It identifies 7 key skills needed: 1) establishing relationships, 2) analyzing group situations, 3) participating with the group, 4) dealing with group feelings, 5) program development, 6) using resources, and 7) evaluation. Important qualities include empathy, a positive attitude, self-confidence, flexibility, appreciation, honesty, and decision-making abilities. In correctional settings specifically, social workers can help prisoners through structured and interactive group work activities focusing on problem solving, feedback, self-disclosure, and creating social support networks.
This document outlines standards for social work practice with groups published by the International Association for Social Work with Groups. It discusses core values of respect for persons, autonomy, and social justice. It also outlines required knowledge in areas like human growth and behavior, group dynamics, and the social work role. The standards are divided into sections on planning, beginning group work, later stages, and ethics. Each section describes key tasks and required knowledge at different phases of group development and work. The document provides a framework to guide ethical and effective social work practice with groups.
This document provides an overview of social work methods and their relationship to field placement. It discusses three main social work methods: social casework, social group work, and community organization. For each method, it provides definitions from experts in the field. It also explains that field placement is an important practical component of social work education, where students can apply the theoretical knowledge and techniques they learn in real-world settings. Both social work methods and field placement are interrelated and important for social workers to gain experience solving problems using scientific approaches.
1. The document outlines key values and skills of social group work, including establishing purposeful relationships, analyzing group situations, and participating with the group.
2. It discusses important values such as cooperation, individual initiative, freedom of participation, and high individualization in groups.
3. Social group workers should enhance individual initiative through creative cooperation while respecting each person's freedom to participate and express themselves.
This document discusses techniques for preparing social groups. It begins by defining social group work and outlining factors to consider when forming groups such as establishing a clear purpose, considering members' perspectives, and ensuring group composition allows for homogeneity. The document then discusses additional considerations like whether the group will be open or closed, optimal group size, meeting frequency and duration, and formulating group guidelines. It emphasizes the importance of preliminary individual meetings with prospective members to provide information, promote motivation, ensure needs are being met, allow for individualization, and give people choice.
This document provides an overview of group dynamics and development. It begins with objectives to identify and analyze social processes that impact group development and performance. It then defines group dynamics as the interaction of forces among group members. Some key points covered include:
- Types of groups like formal, informal, task, and friendship groups.
- Reasons people join groups like security, status, and goal achievement.
- Aspects of group structure including norms, roles, status, and cohesiveness.
- Stages of group development from forming to storming, norming, and performing.
- Strategies to improve group functioning through clear goals, competence, control, collaboration, communication, and coordination
The document discusses Emanuel Tropp's developmental approach to social work with groups. The developmental approach sees individuals as having potential to continually develop and improve their social functioning. It focuses on tapping into people's unused potential. The approach has three major themes: seeing people humanistically, focusing on their current behaviors, and viewing development as a lifelong process. Key aspects include emphasizing common goals and processes, members achieving individual growth through group experiences, and viewing groups as going through beginning, middle, and ending stages with the worker's role changing over time.
This document outlines 10 principles of social group work: 1) planned group formation, 2) specific objectives, 3) purposeful worker-group relationship, 4) continuous individualization, 5) guided group interaction, 6) democratic group self-determination, 7) flexible functional organization, 8) progressive program experiences, 9) resource utilization, and 10) evaluation. It states that in social group work, groups are formed based on their potential for individual growth and meeting needs, objectives are consciously set based on individual and group needs, and workers establish purposeful relationships with groups.
Social mobilization is an approach that empowers communities to participate in their own development. It involves deliberate processes to involve community members, leaders, and groups in organized efforts toward a common purpose. The document outlines the components, benefits, steps, and advantages of social mobilization. Components include empowering communities and transforming institutions equitably. Benefits include poverty alleviation, democratic governance, and conflict prevention. NSTP students act as catalysts by guiding community members to form self-help groups, develop skills, and implement small entrepreneurial activities.
Conscientization is the process of developing critical awareness through reflection and action. It involves assessing community needs, setting goals and objectives, identifying and developing leaders, mobilizing resources, working with community groups, resolving conflicts, program planning, implementation, and monitoring and evaluation. The key aspects are developing awareness through reflection and action, empowering communities to enact change, and using a participatory process to address issues and improve living standards.
Social mobilization is an approach that involves deliberate community participation to organize toward a common purpose. It is defined as a process of building community capabilities to plan, manage and control their own development programs. The key components of social mobilization are growth, empowerment, transformation of social institutions, enhancement of ecological resources, and cultural innovation. Social mobilization benefits communities by alleviating poverty through self-sufficiency, promoting democratic governance through participatory decision making, helping manage resources and fight environmental degradation, and organizing people to address common problems.
Group dynamics involves how people interact and behave in groups. There are different types of groups like primary groups of close friends and family, secondary groups like organizations, and planned groups formed for a purpose. Groups go through stages of forming, storming, norming, performing, and adjourning. Groups are effective when they balance task functions like decision making with maintenance functions like building relationships and addressing members' personal needs. Groups can benefit members but also have risks like oppressing some and creating conflicts.
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Social group work is a method in social work that facilitates positive interactions and development within small groups. It involves a social worker guiding a group of individuals to achieve common goals and address shared concerns. The document discusses using social group work with older adults, outlining the stages of group development and how it can help address issues like loneliness, socialization, and mental/physical well-being. Key benefits of social group work for older people include reducing isolation, providing emotional support, and improving quality of life.
This document discusses the principles and history of social group work. It provides definitions of social group work and outlines its basic assumptions. Some key points:
1. Social group work aims to help individuals through guided group interaction and experiences to address personal and social issues. It recognizes the power of small groups to enable personal and social change.
2. The origins of social group work can be traced back to recreational organizations in the late 19th century that aimed to provide communal benefits. It developed formally in the 1930s with the establishment of social group work as a method within social work.
3. Social group work is based on the assumption that humans are social beings and that purposeful group experiences and interactions can help address
This document outlines Emanuel Troop's developmental approach to social work with groups. It discusses the key features of this approach, including recognizing individuals as resources that can develop and focusing on interpersonal relationships and social roles. The developmental approach sees people on a continuum from dysfunctional to fully functional and aims to help them realize their potential. It also outlines the three stages - beginning, middle, and ending - that groups progress through in this approach. The worker's role is to support the group's self-direction and goal achievement at each stage.
Here are the key indicators of the norming stage:
- Establishing roles and responsibilities
- Developing trust and cohesion
- Setting performance standards and expectations
- Reaching consensus on goals, priorities and ways of working
- Increased cooperation and collaboration
- Less interpersonal conflict
- Emergence of group identity and norms
The players start to understand each other better and develop trust. They agree on team rules and standards. Conflicts reduce as roles and responsibilities get defined. Team bonding and cooperation increases.
This document outlines a proposal for a social support group called Seedlings Social Group. The group aims to empower members by helping them improve their self-image and expand their social networks. It will be open to all ages, genders, and economic statuses. Members will have opportunities to get involved in community service events and learn from human services professionals. The goals are to establish a professional team, gather educational materials, and have an initial group of 10 members over 3 months. Meetings will be held weekly and accessible virtually, using an integrated therapeutic approach. Members will complete evaluation and follow-up forms to assess the impact of participating.
This document summarizes key concepts related to group dynamics and organizational behavior. It defines groups and discusses their characteristics, purposes, types of groups including formal and informal groups. It also covers group development theories, structures, and cohesiveness. Regarding organizational behavior, it discusses models, the Hawthorne effect, elements, importance, and challenges. The research section summarizes a study on the impact of group dynamics on team performance and decision making.
Group dynamics refers to the interactions within groups and the psychological forces between members. It involves how groups form, develop over time through various stages, and function through different roles and norms. Understanding group dynamics is important for recognizing how to best organize, lead, and promote groups. Key aspects include group structure and size, the development process, functions like tasks, maintenance, and self-interest behaviors, and the influence of norms.
The document discusses various aspects of group development and dynamics. It describes the norming stage where group members feel a sense of belonging and intimacy. It also discusses the performing stage where the group is ready to tackle tasks and achieve goals. Additionally, it outlines several principles of group dynamics like the importance of belonging and breaking down barriers between leaders and members.
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Social group work is a method of social work that helps individuals enhance their social functioning through purposeful group experiences. It aims to help individuals develop through interaction in group situations and create cooperative groups working toward common goals. Social group work guides individual interaction in program activities so people can relate to others and experience personal and group growth. The purpose of social group work is to teach individuals to live and work together through participation in group activities to develop their intellect, emotions, and physical skills and prepare them to take responsibility in a democratic society.
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1. SOCIAL GROUP WORK
By
Prahlada G
Faculty
Department of Social Work
University College of Arts,
Tumkur University, Tumkur
2. Social Group Work
• Social group work is a method of social work
which develops the ability of establishing
constructive relationship in individuals through
group activities.
• Group experiences are the essential needs of
human being.
3. GROUP WORK PRACTICE SETTINGS
The setting for social work practice is also the settings for group
work. Groups can be conducted in clinical settings which may be
traditional or innovative in approach like
family welfare agencies,
hospitals,
child guidance clinics,
adult psychiatric units,
schools and colleges,
correctional institutions,
institutions for children, women, the aged and the handicapped;
in many non-institutional services such as clubs for children, youth and women.
It can be practised in developmental settings like unstructured
community projects, floating placements and social action movements.
4. Assumption of Social Group Work
1. Group is a powerful source for influencing the behaviour of its members.
2. The nature of influence depends on a number of factors such as the size of
the group, bond among members, and the capacity of the group to reward
members
3. Members carry their social status in the group
4. The internal and external environment of the group is dynamic in nature.
5. There are groups within a group
6. Generally members are under pressure to conform to group norms
7. Smaller the group the greater is the intensity of bond between members.
8. Group influence on members can be both positive and negative.
9. Group is a potential source for meeting individual needs.
5. Characteristics of Group Work
♪Group work is essential to work with a systematic plan
having understanding, we feelings and concentration.
♪Group workers are viewed as helping persons whose job
is to help people by identifying her/his problem, skill and
ability.
♪There are specific characteristics of group work which are
distinct from those of the other methods of social work.
6. 1. Social Group Work is a Method
A method is a conscious procedure, a designed means of
achieving a goal. It also means that social group work has
special knowledge, understanding, principles and skills.
Social Group Worker has the knowledge of individuals,
groups, community behaviour and skills of working with
them.
7. 2. Individuals Helped through Groups
and in Social Agency Settings
Groups and agency both are important for social
group work practice. Help is provided to the individual
when he becomes a member of a particular group which
exists in a social agency.
8. 3. The role of the Worker is to
Guide Interaction Process
The relationship between worker and group is based
on acceptance. The basic function of social group worker
is to direct interaction process of the group. He
watches the activities and behaviour of every member of
the group.
9. 4. The Purpose of Social Group Work is to provide
Experience, Growth Opportunities for Development
Social Group Worker helps the group to organise
such types of activities through which
members increase their capacities
group
for
participation, belonging, decision-making,
responsibility-taking, and adjusting themselves.
10. Principles of Social Group Work
♪ A principle is a verbalized statement, general
rules or laws, fundamental truths by which we
proceed from one situation to another.
♪ Social group work principles are guiding
assertions of statements that have come from
experience and research.
11. 1. Recognition and subsequent action in relation to the unique
difference of each individual
2. Recognition and subsequent action in relation to the wide variety of
groups as groups
3. Genuine acceptance of each individual with his unique strengths and
weaknesses
4. Establishment of a purposeful relationship between group worker
and group member
5. Encouragement and enabling of help and co-operative
relationships between members
6. Appropriate modification of group process
7. Encouragement of each member to participate according to the
stage of his capacity and enabling him to become more capable
Fourteen Principles by – Douglas
12. 8. Enabling members to involve themselves in the process of problem
solving
9. Enabling group members to experience increasingly satisfactory forms
of working through conflicts
10. Provision of opportunities for new and differing experience in
relationship and accomplishments
11. Judicious use of limitations related to the diagnostic assessment of
each individual and the total situation
12. Purposeful and differential use of programme according to diagnostic
evaluation of individual members, group purpose and appropriate goals
13. Ongoing evaluation of individual and group progress
14. Warm human and disciplined use of self on the part of the group
worker
Fourteen Principles by – Douglas
13. Skills of Social Group Work
In a general sense skill means the capacity to
perform activities. The Webster Dictionary defines it as
“knowledge of and expertness in execution and
performance”.
Trecker defines methods and skill as “Methods
means the purposeful use of insights and understanding
based upon a body of knowledge and principles. Skill is
the capacity to apply knowledge and understanding to a
given situation.
14. 1) Skill in Establishing Purposeful Relationship
a) The group worker must be skilful in gaining
the acceptance of the group and in relating
himself to the group on a positive
professional basis.
b) The group worker must be skillful in helping
individuals in
another and
the group to accept one
to join with the group in
common pursuits.
15. 2) Skill in Analyzing the Group Situation
a) The worker must be skillful in judging the developmental level
of the group to determine what the level is, what the group
needs and how quickly the group can be expected to
move. This calls for skill in direct observation of groups on a
basis of analysis and judgement.
b) The group worker must be skillful in helping the group to
express ideas, work out objectives, clarify immediate
goals and see both its potentialities and limitations as a
group.
16. 3) Skill in Participation with the Group
a) The group worker must be skillful in determining,
interpreting, assuming and modifying his own roles
with the group.
b) The group worker must be skillful in helping, group
members to participate, to locate leadership among
themselves and to take responsibility for their own
activities.
17. 4) Skill in Dealing with Group Feeling
a) The group worker must be skillful in controlling his own
feelings about the group and must study each new
situation with a high degree of objectivity.
b) The group worker must be skillful in helping groups to
release their own feelings, both positive and
negative. He must be skillful in helping groups to
analyze situations as part of the working through group
or intergroup conflicts.
18. 5) Skill in Programme Development
a) The group worker must be skillful in guiding group
thinking so that interests and needs will be revealed
and understood.
b) The group worker must be skillful in helping groups to
develop programmes, which they want as a means
through which their needs may be met.
19. 6) Skill in Using Agency and Community Resources
a) The group worker must be skillful in locating and then
acquainting the group with various helpful resources
which can be utilized by the members for programme
purpose.
b) The group worker must be skillful in helping certain
individual members to make use of specialized
services by means of referral that cannot be met within
the group.
20. 7) Skill in Evaluation
a) The group worker must have skill in recording the
development processes that are going on as he works
with the group.
b) The group worker must be skillful in using his records
and in helping the group to review its experiences as a
means of improvement.
21. Specific Skills
A number of specific skills may help the group worker to
perform his jobs more effectively:
Skill of Programme Planning
Skill of Identify Self Role
Skill of Explaining the
Purpose of the Group
Formation and Communicate
the Group
Skill in Interpreting Verbal
Communication
Skill of Answering Question
Skill of Empathy
Skill of Encouraging the
Member’s Feedback
Skill of Describing the Member’s
Role
Skill of Active Listening
Skill of Exploring the Member’s
Silence
22. History and Growth of Social Group Work
The club and recreation movements of the 19th
century and early 20th are the direct forebears of social
group work.
23. 1. The YMCA and YWCA Movements
Social Group Work has developed as a method from two sources:
The Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA)
The Young Women’s Christian Association (YWCA)
The YMCA
Established by George William in 1844
Objectives of giving Social and religious welfare and companionship
The YWCA
Established by Mrs. Kinnird and Miss. Roberts in 1877
Intention that women and girls were in need of opportunities for recreation,
instruction and Christian Companionship.
Merged the Prayer Union and General Female Training Institute together under
the name of YMCA.
24. 2. Settlement Movement
Jane Addams was one of the founders of settlement for the
purpose of formation of clubs through which residents of the area
could share the cultural resources of more fortunate segments of the
population.
The identification of settlement workers with the life of the area,
and the responsibility of the same group for social reform.
Its main object was the establishment of "settlement houses" in
poor urban areas, in which volunteer middle-class "settlement
workers" would live, hoping to share knowledge and culture with,
and alleviate the poverty of, their low-income neighbors. The
"settlement houses" provided services such as daycare, education,
and healthcare to improve the lives of the poor in these areas.
25. 3. Play Ground and Recreational Movements
In 1855, Mariezakrzewska, who visited Berlin where she had
seen children playing in sand piles in public parks, opened a
sand garden in Boston.
The movement was first confined to the summer months but
later on it became a regular activity.
The support of schools and of social agencies greatly
contributed to the rapid development of the playground
movement.
The school saw them as a means of supplementing classroom
instruction by providing a form of socialized experience in
harmony with the newer theories of progressive education.
26. 4. Influence of Education
John Dewey and
University used
William H. Kilpatrick of Columbia
group process for educational
achievements.
Kilpatrick profounded certain principles as
Life is itself a positive good
Change is inherent in human affairs
Society can no longer run itself on the individualistic basis of each
man for himself alone.
27. 5. Influence of Sociology
Grace Coyle in “Social Process in Organised Groups”
Studied human conduct in society, especially in relation
to groups.
It is the human association through which development
of integrated personalities is possible and desired social
change can be achieved.
28. 6. Influence of Mental Hygiene
The theories of psychology especially of mental hygiene have
become integral part of social group work.
S.R.Slavson in “An Introduction to Group Therapy” writes: In
group therapy we work with children who are directly rejected
by parents, family, schools, street gang and community centre
or whose powers and personalities are indirectly rejected by
pampering as a results of which they are unable to get on with
their contemporaries and with adults.