The Group-in-Situation as the Unit of Attention in Social Work with Groups
The Group-in-Situation as the Unit of Attention in Social Work with Groups
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团体情境作为团体社会工作中的关注单位
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10.1300/j009v06n02_03
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发表时间:
1983
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通讯作者:
Edith E. Moore
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作者:
Edith E. Moore
Group practice theory has focused largely on the internal life of the group, assuming an "average expectable" group environment. However, if the group-in-situation is delineated as the unit of attention, another position is made explicit: namely that group situations are differentiated and must be incorporated with the group in both the analytical and interventive tasks of practice. This later position is more congruent with the realities of current practice in which social workers are addressing themselves to the potential for change on a variety of levels, individual to societal. Thus a framework is proposed for broadening the theory base of group work. It advocates ecological, ethnomethodological, interpersonal and ideological perspectives for addressing the group-insituation. Its approach to practice adapts the concept of group development; the integration-differentiation processes associated with parallel growth; and the notion of environmental competence. The central focus throughout is the interfac...