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features/ characteristics of a group 1. Group is a collection of individual 2. It has a common interest 3. It involves reciprocal relationship 4. It contains a sense of unity and solidarity 5. Members of a group develop mutual awareness of one another 6. There is we-feeling among the members of a group 7. The members have similarity of behaviour 8. There would be some group norms in a group 9. The group would have greater stability than a ordinary collection of people Recording in Social work

Types of social groups  based on the purpose meant to be served. 1. Educational 2. Growth-oriented 3. Remedial 4. Socialization 5. Task (committees, teams, councils), and  6. Therapeutic groups Recording in Social work

purpose of group work 1. To teach the individuals to live, to work together and to participate in the activities of a group for their intellectual, emotional and spiritual growth 2. To solve problems of adjustment by development of individual's personality through the group process 3. To prepare the individual to learn to share responsibility 4. To develop one's inherent leadership qualities 5. To  make creative use of people's leisure time 6. To teach division of labor and specialization of roles 7. To teach democratic functioning 8. To provide substitute for family in a industrial and urban settings 9. To help people to develop physical, mental and emotional adjustment 10. To increase people's social consciousness 11. To educate people in social action and social change 12. To provide opportunity for individual empowerment, and growth in self-esteem and self-confidence 13. To provide resources for learning 14. To develop consistency and predictability of individu

According to Douglas these are the Principles of social group work 1. Individualization in the group 2. Individualization of group 3. Acceptance of group members 4. Purposeful relation 5. Encouraging cooperative relationship 6. Appropriate modification of the group process 7. Encouragement of participate 8. Involvement in problem solving 9. Enabling group members to experience increasingly satisfa ctory forms of working through conflicts 10. Provision of opportunities for new and differing experience in relationships and accomplishments 11. Judicious use of limitations related to the diagnostic assessment of each individual and total situation 12. Purposeful and differential use of program according to diagnostic evaluation of individual member's group purpose and appropriate social goals 13. Ongoing evaluation of individual and group progress 14. Warm, humane and disciplined use of self on the part of the group worker Recording in Social work

Hartford developed and enhances six stages of group development 1. Initial phase 2. Convening 3. Formation 4. Conflict 5. Maintenance 6. Termination Recording in Social work

Group Dynamics 'Group dynamics' has been used to refer to the group processes themselves or to the methods of changing group behavior  It has even been used to refer to the techniques of the particular program, such as buzz session, role playing and group decision.  Group dynamics investigate the formation and change in the structure and function of people into self directing wholes Some of the group dynamics are * Bond * Sub-groups * Role  * Leadership  * Isolates  * Scapegoat  * New- comer  * Conflict  * Decision-making  * Group control * Hostility * Behaviour contagion

Group Dynamics 'Group dynamics' has been used to refer to the group processes themselves or to the methods of changing group behavior  It has even been used to refer to the techniques of the particular program, such as buzz session, role playing and group decision.  Group dynamics investigate the formation and change in the structure and function of people into self directing wholes Some of the group dynamics are * Bond * Sub-groups * Role  * Leadership  * Isolates  * Scapegoat  * New- comer  * Conflict  * Decision-making  * Group control * Hostility * Behaviour contagion

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https://www-wds.worldbank.org/external/default/WDSContentServer/WDSP/IB/2013/07/29/000158349_20130729093041/Rendered/PDF/WPS6547.pdf Recording in Social work