1. Education Group: By helping group members learn new knowledge and methods, or supplementing the deficiency of relevant knowledge, members are urged to change their original incorrect views and solutions to their own problems, thus achieving the development goals of group members.
2. Growth Group: Help team members to understand, recognize and explore themselves, so as to maximize their internal and external resources, give full play to their potential, solve existing problems and promote the normal and healthy development of individuals.
3. Support groups: Support groups solve a problem and change their members by providing information, establishment, encouragement and emotional support to each other. In a support group, the most important thing is to establish relationships, communicate with each other and support each other.
4. Treatment group: The members of the treatment group generally come from people who don't adapt to the social environment, or people whose social network is broken and destroyed, resulting in behavior problems. Quality requirements for social workers: not only solid social work theory and skilled practical skills, but also academic training and clinical experience in psychology and medicine. Through the activity process of group work, we can help the group members understand their own problems and the social reasons behind them, and use the experience exchange and sharing of the group, supplemented by certain resource integration or social support network, so as to realize the treatment of the psychological and social behavior problems of the group members, thus changing the behavior of the group members, remolding their personality, developing their potential and promoting them to become healthy and sound social people.
Extended data:
The main functions of social groups:
Shaping the sense of equality and sense of belonging of group members. Social workers must lead the team members' sense of equality and ownership, and shape the accepted cultural feelings on the basis of equality. In this cultural background. Group members will identify with each other and feel the value of their existence, thus generating a sense of belonging and identity to the group.
Provide a social scene where team members change themselves and are "affirmed". In the group, any new change and promotion of group members will be accepted, affirmed and shared by everyone, which will inspire their confidence in the real community and the real society outside, and will inspire them to understand the real community and society with empathy, and then integrate with themselves after the change.
Create learning opportunities to help each other and grow together. Group work provides opportunities for group members to help others and be helped.
Create an empowered social support network. In the process of group work. Through interaction and sharing among group members and between group members and social workers. Everyone is bound to form a certain network of mutual support.
References:
China Federation of Social Workers Official Website Social Worker China-Social Work Methods Group Work