1. Background on Social Work Practice with Groups

2. What is a group?

3. Can two be a group?

4. Can a group be a team?

5. Groups are a fundamental part of social life. As we will see they can be very small – just two people – or very large.

6. Is a group…...... People with the same ideas?

7. Types of Groups…....

8. Is a group…............ People in the same place?

9. Is a group….......... Similar people with things in common?

10. A group according to Merrium-Webster Dictionary…... A number of individuals assembled together or having some unifying relationship.

11. Types of Groups, Corey, 2016 Psychotherapy groups- process of reeducation that includes both conscious and unconscious awareness of both the present and the past.

12. Examples….... Trauma survivors Chronically mentally ill

13. Psychoeducation group A psychoeducational group is a specific type of group therapy that focuses on educating clients about their disorders and ways of coping. Examples: Anger management, social skills, children of divorce parents, domestic violence, support groups, aging groups and bereavement.

14. Task groups….........