Approaches to social group work
Meaning
• It is an method to solve human problem in a
systematic way,
• In group work it has it own systematic
approach to solve members problem in any
circumstances.
Approaches
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Remedial
Recreational
Preventive
developmental
Remedial
The dictionary meaning is
“tending or intended to rectify or improve”
• Remedial groups Remedial groups focus on
restoration to normalcy after a point of
breakdown. (Gitterman, 2004 )
The group provides a means by which an
individual’s problems can be assessed and
addressed. (Reid 1981)
Recreational
• Dictionary meaning
• Refreshment of one's mind or body after work
through activity that amuses.
Preventive
• “To prevent” literally means “to keep
something from happening”
• The term “prevention” is reserved for those
interventions that occur before the initial
onset of disorder.
• Good examples of preventive work are a
juvenile guidance centre group or a prenatal
or pre-discharge group in a hospital.
Developmental
Dictionary meaning
Concerned with the development of someone
or something.
• the primary concern of developmental
research is how we become what we are.
• The term developmental can be understood to
have two connotations:
• enhancing maturational tasks in the human
life cycle with groups of children, teenagers
and adults; and
• a partnership with the nation in its
developmental programmes and social
progress such as adult education or health.