Types of Groups
Treatment Groups:
There are basically five purposes served by it group. The purposes are support, education,
growth, therapeutic and socialization.
1.Support Groups:
Social group Worker uses supportive intervention strategies for fulfilling the primary roles like
mutual aid, help to cope members from stressful situations, goals to foster mutual aids,
effectively adapting to the future stressful situations and life events.
2.Educational Groups:
The primary purpose of this group is to help members learn something new information and
skills. Educational groups are used in a variety of settings like agencies, schools, nursing
homes, hospitals, etc. Most of these groups are aimed at increasing and involving the
presentation of information and knowledge by experts. They give opportunities for group
discussions, learning and reinforcement.
3.Growth Groups:
These groups offer opportunities for members to change their thoughts, feelings and behaviour
about themselves and others. Group is used as a member to develop member capacity to the
fullest. These groups focus on the socio-emotional health rather than remediating socioemotional illness.
These groups are for self-improvement and checking the potential of human beings. They give
supportive services and atmosphere where individuals gain insights, experiment and grow as
human beings. When composing growth groups, workers select members who have diverse
backgrounds and enrich potential to enrich and broaden each other’s experiences.
Communication in these groups is member centered and highly interactive.
Therapy Groups:
Members are encouraged to give feedback to others. Feedback includes expressing your own
feelings about what someone says or does. Interaction between group members are highly
encouraged and provides each person with an opportunity to try out new ways of behaving it
also provides members with an opportunity for learning more about the way they interact with
others.
It is a safe environment in which members work to establish a level of trust that allows them to
talk personally and honestly. Group members make a commitment to the group and are
instructed that the content of the group sessions are confidential. It is not appropriate for group
members to disclose events of the group to an outside person.
Socialization Groups:
Socialization groups are goal driven and results oriented. They are designed to help children,
teens, and young adults learn social skills: getting along with others, making friends, handling
and expressing frustrations, improve self confidence and self-concept and learn cooperation
with peers and adults in a goal directed but fun setting.
The groups are designed for individuals who act out or withdraw in social situations, have a poor
self image, and have either knowledge based deficits such as, Non-Verbal Learning Disorder or
Asperger’s Syndrome or a performance based deficit such as, Attention Deficit Disorder or
Generalized Anxiety Disorders. These are children who know what to do but Struggle to do it.
Task Groups:
Task groups are groups of individuals brought together to accomplish a specific action or
produce a product. If you have participated in an educational planning meeting, been a member
of a committee, attended a treatment team meeting, been elected to student government or
joined a social movement group, you have already experienced a task group in action.
Developing an awareness of the ingredients that go into a successful task group, with satisfied
members is crucial.
Teams:
Team members work with each other to accomplish goals on behalf of the client group, The
functioning of the gimp is the responsibility of the team leader. Team leaders are appointed, by
the group administrator.
Team leader is facilitator and coordinator, of the group. He is responsible for conducting
meetings motivating team members and also coordinating individual efforts. Members are
bonded by team spirit which assists them in their work as a group rather than as a collection of
individuals representing different concerns and agendas.
Committee:
The largely widespread task group is committee. A committee is made up by the people who
are elected as a group. Their job is accomplishing tasks which delegate the committee from
superior powers. For example group of students in charge of a rural camp for the college, group
of employees assigned
a the task of studying and recommending changes in the agency’s personnel policies.
Members are accepted to carve up their individual observation throughout discussions. Most of
the committees follow paradigm set of measures in their meetings so that so that committee
members follow the activity of the group. They must also be aware of the meeting tasks. The
chairperson is responsible person to see the agenda and procedure of the meeting.
Social Action Groups:
Social action is made up of two essential and inseparable elements, the principles and the
process. These do not stand alone, but are completely dependent upon each other, a targeted
population which have same needs group composed members is of a heterogeneous group.
Similarity between the members of the group leads to cohesion which helps in an open and
intense interaction with each other. Members share feelings and life situations which were kept
under carpets, while discussing great bonds forms within the group.
In some cases heterogeneous groups are best, when the group needs a microcosm outside
from the group. Personal growth and certain therapy groups are usually heterogeneous.
Members experiment within the groups and they even develop interpersonal skills which helps
in the formation of a rich variety of people and environment.