SCWK 1710 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Consensus Decision-Making, Anti-Globalization Movement, Social Actions
11 Jun 2018
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Focusing on process: process is critical in group work, but often gets overlooked when
facilitators become too engaged in the content of the discussion, while the content may be
interesting and important its frequently the process that is the most important issue to attend to in
a group, focusing on the process includes pointing out patterns to the group and reframing issues.
Cueing: the facilitator scans the group, takes its pulse as it were and becomes instrumental in
inviting silent or non- participating members to engage in the group process.
Supporting: the facilitator is required when to determine when to support a group member.
Jumping to early might prevent the member from fully exploring a situation and learning from it.
This skill is also used for individuals in the group to support each other. Feeling “all in the same
boat” is a healing aspect of the group and lets the individual know they are not alone
Blocking: facilitator must also decide when to challenge a group member. Harmful things can be
said in group and the group facilitator must try to block certain comments or activities in order to
maintain the safety of the group.
Demonstration social empathy. The facilitator makes the link between personal troubles and
structural troubles. Connection the personal and political can be very affirming to clients. By
providing a social and political context for group members experiences, the facilitator reframes
their issues so members can shift from feeing worthless or frustrated to g empowered.
Social work with Communities
social work with communities, people working together have the capacity to improve their own
circumstance, usually a community is defined as a grouping of people with something in
common, this social work practice is found interesting by social workers as a community is
stronger together against oppression and exploitation and they can come together to stop
prolonged cruel or unjust treatment or control. communities are helpful in decreasing isolation,
getting people involved and sharing useful information.
Jack Rothmans summarized community work and fit in into 3 helpful and distinct types.
Locality development: includes those approach to community organized that focuses on issues
relevant to a particular neighborhood or geographic space. It focusses on a wide number of
community participants. Consensus is built by establishing common interests and community
members are encouraged to become leaders. Focuses on change tends to be municipal
governments, external developers and sometimes provincial and federal governments
Social planning: is an expert-driven approach to community work, which can often be found in
social planning council and city planning departments. While community members are involved
to verifying degrees in making process work, the experts (social workers, public health workers)
tend to facilitate the meetings and wire and reports that emerge from this progress. Social
workers in this area often take on the role of researchers, proposal writer or communication
managers.
Social actions: is an activist approach to community work seen in many social movements, such
as anti-globalization movements, the feminist movements and the anti-racist movements. This
approach often uses social protest challenges injustice. A social action approach to community
work aims to redistribute power, resources and decisions making
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Document Summary
Cueing: the facilitator scans the group, takes its pulse as it were and becomes instrumental in inviting silent or non- participating members to engage in the group process. Supporting: the facilitator is required when to determine when to support a group member. Jumping to early might prevent the member from fully exploring a situation and learning from it. This skill is also used for individuals in the group to support each other. Feeling all in the same boat is a healing aspect of the group and lets the individual know they are not alone. Blocking: facilitator must also decide when to challenge a group member. Harmful things can be said in group and the group facilitator must try to block certain comments or activities in order to maintain the safety of the group. The facilitator makes the link between personal troubles and structural troubles. Connection the personal and political can be very affirming to clients.
