SOCWK120R Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Organization Development, Conflict Resolution, Opencable Application Platform
10 Mar 2015
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Group work can be defined as assisting a collections of people who are dealing generally with a similar problem or issue. Groups can be peers, a family, or a therapeutic group. Group work approaches range from therapeutic to educational to activist. Similarly, some communities want to rake a healing or therapeutic approach to their problems, others want to learn skills, and some want to head to the streets in protest. Parenting with kindness and firmness is an educational group for parents. In tis group, parents are invited to look at their own childhood experience of being parented and examinee what they gained and what they would like to let go of. Group members looks at the skills they already have and identify goals that they would like to achieve in parenting. Experiential activities are used and parents learn effective problem solving skills and how to create a home atmosphere of respect with limits that they whole family can live with.
