Group work

A form of cooperative learning. It aims to cater for individual differences, develop students' knowledge, generic skills and attitudes. Specifically in psychotherapy, "group work" refers to group therapy, offered by a practitioner trained in psychotherapy, psychoanalysis, counseling or other relevant discipline.

Social work includes all voluntary attempts to extend benefits in response to need which are concerned with social relationships and which avails themselves of scientific knowledge and methods. Social Work with Groups represents a broad domain of direct social work practice.

Social workers work with a variety of groups in all settings in which social work is practiced. While some have proposed that social work practice with groups reflects any and all groups within which social workers participate, other definitional parameters have been established. As the book addresses this crucial issue quite deftly, it is hoped that it would prove to be a source of great information for the reader.