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.

1. VALUES AND SKILLS OF SOCIAL GROUP WORK

2. Establishing purposeful
relationships
• In gaining the acceptance
• Members accepting one another

3. Analyzing the group situation
• In judging the developmental level
• In helping to express, set objectives clarify goals

4. Participation with the group
• In determining, interpreting, assigning, modifying his/her own role with
groups
• Helping members to participate, locate leadership and take responsibility
for their own activities.

5. Dealing with group feeling
• Controlling his/her own feeling about the group
• Follow objectivity, help members realize their positive and negative
feelings

6. Programme development
• To meet the needs of group

7. Skills in using agency and
community resources
• In locating potential resources and linking it

8. Evaluation
• using his/her records in helping the groups members to review its
experiences as a means of improvement.

9. Values
• General values
• Value members ability to keep each other
• Value group ability to empower people
• Value the power of group to promote understanding among members
from diverse background
• Value conflicts caused by personal value system in the group
• Understanding of members’ value system

10. Values of group work
Key values of group work has been stated by Giesela Konopka (1983).
She suggested that all group workers should agree on the importance of:
Participation and positive relationship among the people of different
color, creed, age, national, origin and social class in the group.
1. The value of cooperation
2. The importance of individual initiative
3. The importance of freedom of participation
4. The value of high individualization in the group

11. Value of Co-operation
• In the framework of higher competitive society group work method
consciously include provision for the expression in co-operating with
each other

12. Importance of Individual Initiative
• Social group work practice should enhance individual initiative in the
frame work of creative co-operation

13. Freedom of Participation
• Dignity of individual should be expressed through the freedom to express
his thought and his lights to concern his matters concerning himself and
his country. One of the greatest skills of social worker is to help individual
in different stages of development and with different capabilities to
participation given group sites.

14. Individualization in a Group
• Although some activities can be conducted without it, they do not belong
in the practice of social group work. Emotional satisfaction felt by the
people through mass events may have an important place in human
society.