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© British Association of Social Workers

Towards an Alternative Model of Social Groupwork

AUDREY MULLENDER and DAVE WARD

Audrey Mullender and Dave Ward are lecturers in social work at the University of Nottingham and have backgrounds in local authority social services and the probation service, respectively. Both have co-led groups of teenagers in care or at risk of entering care.

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This paper arose from our disagreement with some of the suggestions in an earlier article in this journal (Brown et al., 1982). Before and since, we have both worked in and studied numerous examples of groups of a type which, according to Brown and his coauthors, scarcely exists in British social work practice. This paper explains what we believe to be the actual significance of the type of group work we refer to as ‘self-directed’, together with our view of its place within wider social work, community work, and groupwork practice. We also give examples of such groups and conclude that their proliferation would enable workers to go beyond the alleviation of individual distress into the achievement of external change.


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