Working with groups
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This document discusses groups and working with groups. It defines a group as a collection of individuals who interact face-to-face over time and are small enough that everyone can communicate with each other directly. It describes social group work as a method that helps individuals enhance their social functioning and cope with personal or community problems through purposeful group experiences. It also mentions Tuckman's Group Development Theory and discusses how group work can help groups develop an identity, share commonalities, build relationships, and become responsible through sharing ideas, identifying skills and knowledge, and problem solving.
Working with groups
- 2. Ever wondered “where do people gather together?”gather together?”
- 3. What is a Group? A group is a collection of individuals who interact with one another, over a span of time, and who are few enough, so thatof time, and who are few enough, so that each person is able to communicate with all the others, not through other people, but face-to-face. George Homans
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- 5. Social group work is a method which helps individuals toSocial group work is a method which helps individuals to enhance their social functioning through purposefulpurposefulpurposefulpurposeful group experiences, to cope more effectively with their personal, group or communitypersonal, group or communitypersonal, group or communitypersonal, group or community problems.
- 7. What happens in a Group? Tuckman's Group Development Theory
- 8. GROUPWORK helps to Define an identity (Personal / Community) Share a COMMONality Develop relationships BecomeBecomeBecomeBecome ResponsibleResponsibleResponsibleResponsible
- 9. GROUPWORK helps to Share ideas and good practices Identifyand utilize various thoughts & skills, knowledgedifferent skills, knowledge and experiences Lend a hand to one another Problem solving….. Etc.
- 10. “All those who have Faith take care of each other” (Acts 2:44)
- 11. Questions?