The Essential Groupworker

Teaching and Learning Creative Groupwork

By: Catherine Sawdon, Mark Doel

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Paperback | 1 January 1999

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Starting from the premise that groups are a central and essential feature of human experience, the authors develop a generic model of groupwork. They illustrate the application of this model in social care practice, focusing on teaching and learning in groupwork. This volume is drawn from a groupwork action research project with Wakefield social services, which was developed and refined over a period of ten years. The book is divided into two parts: the first explores the theory behind groupwork, arguing for the broad applicability and effectiveness of groupwork, and emphasizing the need for the groupworker to become aware of the universal occurrence of groups, and to look for the patterns of group function in society. The second part, which forms the main body of the book, describes in detail how to plan, set up and maintain a working group. It looks closely at the issues, such as power and power relations, individual and group identities, which affect the formation and success of a group. It describes how to measure outcomes and apply knowledge gained through experience, and ways of approaching group endings.

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This is an important new book that offers some useful insights into the use of groupwork in a wide variety of settingsDescribed as a ""celebration of groupwork"", it seeks to challenge the idea that it is an outmoded method of social work intervention, with no value in the modern world- and it is very successful in doing so. It provides a clear and helpful analysis for both practitioners of groupwork and people seeking to teach groupwork as a practice tool. It is clearly written and well informed by an appropiate blend of theory, research and practice experienceIt also features the rather interesting- and helpful device- of including a number of pages that can be photocopied for training purposes without breaching copyrighta very worth-while addition to the literature. I am sure it will be of great value to trainers, mainly as a text that can be used to facilitate groupwork training. However, it also has much to offer as a general aid to understanding the intricacies of group interaction in a training context, and should therefore be a valuable and important resource for trainers.

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Prelude	p. 7
Groupwork in Context
Why Groupwork?	p. 11
Education and Training for Groupwork	p. 33
Power and Oppression in Groupwork	p. 50
Groupwork in Action
The Planning Phase	p. 71
Offering Groupwork	p. 95
The First Session and the Group Agreement	p. 113
Action Techniques in Groups	p. 130
Interactional Techniques in Groups	p. 160
Individual Behaviours in the Group	p. 179
The Individual and the Group	p. 194
Co-working and Leadership in Groups	p. 213
Recording and Evaluating Groupwork	p. 229
Endings in Groupwork	p. 250
References	p. 266
Subject Index	p. 276
Author Index	p. 287
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