MODELS IN SOCIAL GROUP WORK
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
To learn about various models in group work
practice.
To learn about the features of each model.
Role of social worker
Group Work Models
Social goal model: which gives priority to
provision and prevention.
Remedial model: prefer restoration and
rehabilitation.
Reciprocal model: attempts to encompass and
reconcile these two.
Social Group Models
Social Goals Model:
Designed to bring about important social gains for the
group.
It is likely to address itself to problems within
communities and is practiced in settlement
addressing social problems accompanying
community development and growth.
Social Goals Model features
Function of the SGW at this level is to create a
broader base of knowledgeable and skilled citizenry,
inculcate a sense of social responsibility.
Central problem dealt are those related to social order
and social value orientation in small group.
There is no hierarchy in social goal model
Here every group is viewed as having capacity to
bring in effective social change.
The group respond mainly to the local needs or local
issue
Role of social worker in social goal model
Worker viewed as enabler influential person who can
fulfill social responsibility.
Worker as a function in stimulating and reinforcing
modes of appropriate content enhance directive
towards social change.
It is transfer of leadership worker to individual
member.
Short comings
Individual motivation can be entered by individual
needs
The members needs do not match group goals is
group likely to disperse
The group should be able to give priority to the
community needs, it is not applicable people who as
mental illnesses.
The Remedial Model:
Tends to be clinically oriented.
Facilitates the interaction among members of the group to
achieve change for the individual.
The group supports the member, encouraging new, more
appropriate modes of functioning.
Intervention is reality focused and addresses the problem of
dysfunction in the group and within the full range of the
individual’s relationships.
Features of remedial model
Fuscous on individual dysfunction and utilizes the group as a
context and mean for altering the deviant behavior.
This model deals with differently abled persons and also isolated
and alienated people.
Group use in this model to treat problems an adjustment in the
person and social relationships
.
It is considered as more clinical because that seeks to help socially
mal adjusted individual to improve social functioning threw guided
group experience
.
Removing adverse conditions of the individual who’s behavior
disapproved by society.
.
Role of social worker in remedial model
.worker is the central person, is the object of
identification and drives.
Is a symbol and a spokesman tries to maintain norms
and values of society
Is a motivator and stimulator.
Is an executive, facilitates the activities of the group
order to gain the said objectives
.
Social Group Models
The Reciprocal Model:
Serves both the individual and society.
Sees the individual largely as an abstraction that can be
studied, understood, and treated only in relation to the many
systems and subsystems of which they are a part.
It views the individual as being created, influenced, and
modified by their relationships, social institutions, and the
interdependency between society and the individual.
Features of reciprocal model
It advances the helping process that is intended to
serve both the individual as well as the society.
The reciprocal model organic and systematic relation
ship between individual and the society.
The range of social work can include prevention and
provision as well as restoration.
The most strike concept of reciprocal model is
mutual aid system.
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