Social Work Reflective Essay
For some group work is just another way of talking about teamwork. Social work practitioners work with groups of people in many different ways and in many different contexts.
Festinger et al. (Campus, 2017/2018)(1950) on the other hand, considered group cohesion to refer to “the total field of forces which act on members and causes them to remain in a group” Social work is a profession concerned with helping individuals, families, groups and communities to enhance their individual and collective well-being. It aims to help people develop their skills and their ability to use their own resources and those of the community to resolve problems. Social work is concerned with individual and personal problems but also with broader social issues such …show more content…
This places social work students with an organization that works with a community or issue. As such group work plays an important part of all courses in this programme.
Group Dynamics in Social work and Counselling is just one of them. As part of this course I was placed in a group to work and had to work on our final project together. Knowing this was a requirement I had to face the fact that I had to do this even with the bad experience of working with group in the past. Working with groups has been a challenge for me in that I had to do most of the work. Completing coursework was one of the tasking. Working in groups addressed the practical and theoretical aspects of social work which would best prepare us in our social work career and its incredibly dynamic field. (Guide, …show more content…
These abilities are often not recognized for what they are for when group work is done well it can seem natural. Skilled group workers, like skilled counsellors, have to be able to draw upon an extensive repertoire of understandings, experiences and skills and be able to think on their feet. They have to respond both quickly and sensitively to what is emerging in the exchanges and relationships in the groups they are working with. (Smith, 1998-2008) My group was a very unique one, it was small in size and would be best described as a task group. Working in groups is often presented as a good way of dividing work and increasing productivity. It can also be argued that it allows for the utilization of the different skills, knowledge and experiences that people have. There was one person good at theories, the others good at interventions, arrangement and a creative and very keen on picking up
Festinger et al. (Campus, 2017/2018)(1950) on the other hand, considered group cohesion to refer to “the total field of forces which act on members and causes them to remain in a group” Social work is a profession concerned with helping individuals, families, groups and communities to enhance their individual and collective well-being. It aims to help people develop their skills and their ability to use their own resources and those of the community to resolve problems. Social work is concerned with individual and personal problems but also with broader social issues such …show more content…
This places social work students with an organization that works with a community or issue. As such group work plays an important part of all courses in this programme.
Group Dynamics in Social work and Counselling is just one of them. As part of this course I was placed in a group to work and had to work on our final project together. Knowing this was a requirement I had to face the fact that I had to do this even with the bad experience of working with group in the past. Working with groups has been a challenge for me in that I had to do most of the work. Completing coursework was one of the tasking. Working in groups addressed the practical and theoretical aspects of social work which would best prepare us in our social work career and its incredibly dynamic field. (Guide, …show more content…
These abilities are often not recognized for what they are for when group work is done well it can seem natural. Skilled group workers, like skilled counsellors, have to be able to draw upon an extensive repertoire of understandings, experiences and skills and be able to think on their feet. They have to respond both quickly and sensitively to what is emerging in the exchanges and relationships in the groups they are working with. (Smith, 1998-2008) My group was a very unique one, it was small in size and would be best described as a task group. Working in groups is often presented as a good way of dividing work and increasing productivity. It can also be argued that it allows for the utilization of the different skills, knowledge and experiences that people have. There was one person good at theories, the others good at interventions, arrangement and a creative and very keen on picking up