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Social Group Work Definitions

Social group work is a method of social work that develops individuals' abilities through group activities. It helps people through group-based activities while enhancing their knowledge, understanding, and skills. Social group work aims to promote social development and requires an understanding of human interaction in groups. It uses the group as an instrument to meet basic needs, strengthen human capacities, and provide opportunities for growth according to individuals' needs and capacities. Social group work has the benefits of utilizing relationships, multi-person processes, program activities, and group membership to positively impact individuals. Its objectives include assisting personal maturation, supplementing socio-emotional support, promoting democratic participation, and remedying maladjustment through group strategies.

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Social Group Work Definitions

Social group work is a method of social work that develops individuals' abilities through group activities. It helps people through group-based activities while enhancing their knowledge, understanding, and skills. Social group work aims to promote social development and requires an understanding of human interaction in groups. It uses the group as an instrument to meet basic needs, strengthen human capacities, and provide opportunities for growth according to individuals' needs and capacities. Social group work has the benefits of utilizing relationships, multi-person processes, program activities, and group membership to positively impact individuals. Its objectives include assisting personal maturation, supplementing socio-emotional support, promoting democratic participation, and remedying maladjustment through group strategies.

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SOCIAL GROUP WORK

DEFINITIONS
Social group work is a method of social work which develops the
ability of individuals through group activities. It is a different way
of helping individuals through group based activities and
enhancing - knowledge, understanding and skill. • Social group
work is concerned with the social development of individuals.
Practice of group work requires a deep knowledge about how
humans interact in groups.
• Definition • “Social group work is a psycho-social process
which is concerned no less than with developing leadership ability
and cooperation than with building on the interests of the group
for a social purpose.” (Hamilton – 1949).
Trecker’s Definition
 “Social group work is a method through which
individuals in groups in social agency settings
are helped by worker who guides their
interaction in programme activities so that they
may relate themselves to others and experience
growth opportunities in accordance with their
needs and capacities.” (Trecker – 1955).
Konapka and Skidmore’s definition
 “Social group work is a method of social work,
which helps individuals to enhance their social
functioning through purposeful group
experiences and to cope more effectively with
their personal, group and community
problems.” (Konopka-1963)
• Social Group Work is used for the purpose of
reducing or eliminating roadblocks to social
interaction and accomplishing desirable social
goals (Skidmore – 1988)
Characteristics of Group Work
 Characteristics of Group Work:
 Group work makes use of multiple relationships and a
multi-person process (worker to member, worker to group,
member to member and member to group)
 The group is an instrument for meeting basic needs and
strengthening human capacities. It promotes identification
of participants with one another and provides freedom to
relate as and when the client is ready for it.
 A unique characteristic of group work is its use of
programme media such as play, discussion, arts and crafts,
music, dance, drama, role play, outings and parties which
facilitate mastery of skills and serve as a vehicle for fostering
human relationship
Benefits of Group Work
 Programme activities offer scope for utilisation of
non-verbal communication, a particularly valuable
tool for clients who cannot articulate their needs
and problems.
 Membership in the group, exposure to its
influences, participation in its activities and
acquisition of a role and status within it can have
potent effects for individuals.
 Group work is practiced by group itself • Based
on humanitarian philosophy: • It gives aspiration
to help each other: • It develops human personality
Objectives of Group Work

 Objectives of Group Work


 Group work helps to achieve the overall objectives of
social work through its own specific objectives which
are:
 to assist individuals in their maturation;
 provide supplemental emotional and social
nourishment;
 promote democratic participation and citizenship;
and
 remedy individual and social disorganisation or
maladjustment through group intervention strategies.

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