Helping Process in Social Work with Groups PDF

 Beginning Phase:  1. Assessment  2. Planning Middle Phase 1. Plan Implementation  Ending Phase 1. Evaluation 2. Termination  PRE-GROUP FORMATION 1. Conceptualizing the Group Service 2. Announcing the Group Service and recruiting members 3. P...

 Beginning Phase:  1. Assessment  2. Planning Middle Phase 1. Plan Implementation  Ending Phase 1. Evaluation 2. Termination  PRE-GROUP FORMATION 1. Conceptualizing the Group Service 2. Announcing the Group Service and recruiting members 3. Preparing Logistics 4. Enlisting community support  Individual Focused Assessment and Planning Involves information gathering and information-gathering and analysis towards an understanding and consequently a definition of the need or problem of the client Pre-group Interviews/Intake – done prior to group formation. Individual client’s profile: (should contain the following information) 1) Name and other basic identifying information 2) Need(s)/concerns/problems relevant to the group program 3) Strengths/resources and limitations, if any 4) Worker’s observations /comments  Case Assessment/Problem Definition > Referred to as “social study” , “social diagnosis”, “problem definition”,. And “assessment” - as a process and a product of understanding on which action is based.  Action-Planning Is based on assessment and is the outcome of assessment Includes the following steps: a. Formulating goals b. Establishing specific helping plans  Group-Focused Assessment and Planning group level assessment and planning may be said to start even before the group is convened. ( because as the worker does the pre-group interviews with each prospective group member, he is “processing” in his mind the information he has been getting, thinking about who will be in which group, what problem or concern will be likely addressed, and what activities may have to be undertaken.)  Group-Focused Assessment and Planning 1. Group Composition 1.1 selection of members (based on compatibility or complementarity and not identity 1.2 size of the group (4 to 15 more or less)  2. Group Formation Should discuss the following impt matters: a. Common group concern/problem b. Norms and rules c. Schedule and venue of group sessions d. Group goals 1. members’ perspectives ( own views, perceptions, motivations needs, and purposes of individual members) 2. worker’s perspectives 3. group system perspective: Group Goals “Group system goals” according to Schopler and Galinsky  Program Media Refers to the activities , verbal or non- verbal which the group engages in for the purpose of achieving its goals Uses of program media: Modify or change attitudes and behavior Promote individual values such as emotional and intellectual growth Influence group climate Promote group interaction, etc.  Plan Implementation Refersto all activities, worker intervention and group action which the group system directs towards the achievement of goals (Boehm)  Evaluation Can mean any of the following: 1. Regular or periodic – meaning on-going evaluation of actions taken during plan implementation 2. Terminal evaluation – follows implementation and is done primarily to assess the outcome of the helping efforts  Summative evaluation – evaluation that is concerned with outcomes or effectiveness;  Formative evaluation - evaluation that is concerned with looking at the process of the work.  Records as evaluation tools: > The following are records that the group worker must write and keep: 1. pre-group /intake interviews 2. Individual case assessments 3. Statements to group concerns/problems, group goals and plans (for group in-session and extra-group session) 4. Attendance records  Records as evaluation tools: The following are records that the group worker must write and keep: 5. Process or summary recordings of group sessions 6. Records of marginal interviews (i.e. interviews with members outside group sessions)  Records as evaluation tools: The following are records that the group worker must write and keep: 7. Records of collateral interviews / interviews with “significant others” 8. Evaluation records (i.e, individuals, group) 9. Transfer /closing summaries TERMINATION The final step in the helping process Done when the goals for the client have been substantially achieved; there is no reason to expect that any more significant gains can be achieved by extending the helping relationship;’ Or very little progress or movement toward the achievement of agreed-on goals for the individual /or the group; After having done one’s best and it’s clear that the worker is not getting there. Hartford describes the following parts of termination: 1. Pre-termination- the period of preparation for the actual ending which can include the acknowledgment that the group is about to end. 2. Termination – the last actual session 3. Post-termination – follow up plans which can be done on either an individual or on a group basis   END  THANK YOU !