Groups That Work: Structure and ProcessSocial workers, planners, health professionals, and human-service administrators spend much of their time in meetings, working in and with groups. What meaning does participation in these groups have for members? Some of the events that are most important for members of the various professions, and those whom they serve, take place within these groups. Health and human services depend upon their working groups for their development and allocation of resources, their standards of quality, and the evaluation of their success or failure. In short, these groups are relied upon to come up with creative solutions to complex problems. |
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... Social Work with Groups in reviving the importance—indeed, the primacy—of the small group in social work. Much has changed since the first edition.What has changed is not so much the nature of groups but rather our understanding of them ...
... social agency, an educational planner, a department head in a hospital, or a human services administrator in a state government.You might ask the question,“What does this person actually do?” If you try to answer this question by ...
... social living for many adults is woven of experiences in local unions and trade associations, charitable organizations, churches, synagogues, or other religious groups, community councils, political clubs, sports teams, community ...
... Social workers and other applied social scientists have been aware of the importance of group work from the beginning. Late-nineteenth- and earlytwentieth-century figures in the development of social work wrote about work with groups in ...
Contents
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12 | |
3 Toward a Model of Working Groups | 27 |
4 The Democratic Microcosm
| 43 |
Benchmarks and Guideposts
| 53 |
6 Leadership in Working Groups
| 68 |
7 Leadership and Contexts
| 87 |
8 Problem Solving and Decision Making
| 97 |
11 Organizational Settings and Styles | 141 |
12 Technologies for Group Maintenance Operation
and Productivity | 160 |
13 Recurring Problems in Groups and Suggested
Staff Responses | 183 |
14 Perspectives for Professional Practice
with Working Groups | 195 |
Population of SelfDescriptive QSort Statements | 209 |
Notes
| 215 |
Bibliography
| 217 |
Index
| 229 |