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Models in Social Group Work

The document discusses three models of social group work: 1) The social goal model prioritizes social provision and prevention, addressing problems in communities through citizen involvement. 2) The remedial model is clinically oriented and uses the group to facilitate individual change and more appropriate functioning. 3) The reciprocal model serves both individuals and society by viewing individuals as influenced by relationships and social systems, and addressing prevention, provision and restoration.

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Models in Social Group Work

The document discusses three models of social group work: 1) The social goal model prioritizes social provision and prevention, addressing problems in communities through citizen involvement. 2) The remedial model is clinically oriented and uses the group to facilitate individual change and more appropriate functioning. 3) The reciprocal model serves both individuals and society by viewing individuals as influenced by relationships and social systems, and addressing prevention, provision and restoration.

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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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