| Course ID: | SOWK 7116E. 3 hours. |
| Course Title: | Social Work with Groups |
Course
Description: | This generalist practice course is designed to develop skills and
techniques necessary for practice in group settings. It will
focus on group dynamics and processes, group formation, and group
development. Other content areas include mutual aid, group
conflict, diversity, group facilitation, and values and ethics in
group work practice. |
| Oasis Title: | Social Work with Groups |
| Duplicate Credit: | Not open to students with credit in SOWK 7116 |
| Nontraditional Format: | This course will be taught 95% or more online. |
Semester Course
Offered: | Offered fall, spring and summer semester every year. |
| Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
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| Course Objectives: | • Describe the historical, philosophical, ethical, and value-
based context for the interface between group work and the
field of social work
• Identify, select, apply, and evaluate appropriate
theoretical frameworks for the use in groups to educate,
provide psychosocial support, and promote personal empowerment
and attitudinal change in individuals
• Identify, select, apply, and evaluate appropriate group
facilitation techniques for psychosocial group work with
diverse client populations and constellations
• Demonstrate understanding of basic concepts in group
dynamics and the various stages in group development, such as
cohesion, interactional patterns, roles, norms, status, group
culture, content vs. process, and conflict resolution
• Demonstrate understanding of the leader's role in group
facilitation
• Articulate a beginning understanding of your personal group
leadership style
• Demonstrate development of self-awareness and apply
understanding about your own functioning within a group to
family-of-origin roles and life experience |
| Topical Outline: | • History of Group Work/Practice in Social Work
• Therapeutic Factors and Mutual Aid in Group Work
• Values and Ethics in Group Work
• Diversity in Groups
• Group Formation/Preplanning
• Beginning Phase of Group Work
• Co-leadership in Group Work
• The Transition to the Middle/Working Phase of Group
Work
• Group Member Roles
• Middle/Working Phase of Group Work
• Group Facilitation, Leadership and Skills
• Group Process
• Using Group Exercises
• Group Endings and Evaluation
• Models of Group Work (Including Evidence-based
Practice)
• Group Work in Diverse Settings |