L T P Total Max.
Marks
Credit
3 1 - 4 100
SEMESTER – I
COURSE 105 – SOCIAL GROUP WORK
OBJECTIVES
•To develop an understanding of the basic social work attitudes necessary for the use of social group work.
•To develop an awareness of evolving professional values in the group work.
•To develop skills in the integrated use of social group work methods in Indian perspective.
COURSE CONTENTS
UNIT – I (Weightage 20 percent)
Social Group as a Methods of Social Work, Definition, Objectives, Philosophy & Basic Assumptions in Group
Work.
Historical Development in India & US. Principles Value of Social Group Work.
UNIT – II (Weightage 20 percent)
Models of Social Group Work, Social Goal Model, Remedial Model, Reciprocal Model & Developmental
Model.
Group Formation: Techniques, Purposes – Corrective, Preventive, Normal social growth, personal
enhancement, citizenship – responsibility and participation, stages of group development, group dynamics and
conflict.
Group Leadership: Meaning, Functions of Group Leadership and
Leadership Theories.
Skills & Rates & Responsibilities of Group Leader.
UNIT – III (Weightage 20 percent)
Group Formation, Purposes, Techniques, Citizenship, Responsibility &
Participation, Normal Social Growth, Personal Enhancement, Corrective,
Prevention.
Phases of Group Development, Group Dynamics & Conflict. Reporting and Recording’.
UNIT – IV (Weightage 20 percent)
Skills of Group Worker, Programme Planning & Management, Consensus Building, Inter-personal Relations,
Mobilizations, Use of Resources, Winding up & Fallow up.
Techniques of Group Work, Acceptance, Recognition, Loving, Sharing, Playing, Probing, Helping & Limiting.
UNIT – V (Weightage 20 percent)
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