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- Title
Social Group Work: Trends and Developments.
- Authors
Wilson, Gertrude
- Abstract
The article discusses the nature of current theories and practices of social work and correlates them with the larger social and cultural settings in which it functions. As knowledge from the social sciences, psychology and psychoanalysis became more general among social workers, the concepts and consequently the principles and techniques used by social workers were affected. Social concepts, which made possible the analysis of the social processes through which change takes place, brought the importance and significance of small and large groups into prominence. The distinction between social group work practice and work with groups is one which is needed, not just in relation to professional organization and the curriculum content which supports social work, but also in the fields in which social workers practice where they are in daily contact with workers who serve groups, not only as part of social work practice, but who work from an orientation different from that of social work. Such distinctions are postponed for later consideration on the theory that social workers must first agree on what they do that is distinctive within their own profession before they can undertake the task of identifying similarities to and differences from other professional work with groups.
- Subjects
SOCIAL group work; SOCIOLOGY of social services; SOCIAL workers; SOCIAL groups; SOCIAL services; SOCIAL adjustment
- Publication
Social Work, 1956, Vol 1, Issue 4, p66
- ISSN
0037-8046
- Publication type
Article