Roles and Responsibilities of Group Workers in Ending Phase of Social Group Work
Characteristics, roles, and responsibilities of group workers during the ending (termination) phase involve maintaining change efforts, promoting independent functioning of members, addressing members' feelings about closure, planning for the future, making referrals, evaluating group work, and more. The worker needs to ensure smooth closure, anticipate member responses, and navigate feelings of ambivalence. Specific roles during this phase include evaluator, referrals coordinator, guide, and counselor.
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Dr. Jaimon Varghese Social Group Work 1 9/23/2024
Characteristics, roles and responsibilities of group worker of ending (termination) phase Characteristics, roles and responsibilities of group worker of ending (termination) phase Social Group Work 2 9/23/2024
Characteristics of ending (termination) phase ( (Ronald W (1) Maintaining and generating change efforts (2) Reducing group attraction and promoting the independent functioning of individual members (3) Helping members with their feelings about ending (4) Planning for the future (5) Making referrals (6) Evaluating the work of a group Characteristics of ending (termination) phase Ronald W Toseland Toseland and Robert F Rivas, 1984:333 and Robert F Rivas, 1984:333) ) Social Group Work 3 9/23/2024
Ending a meeting ( (Ronald W (1) Keep members focussed on the topic of discussion (2) Limit the time that each member has to discuss an issue (3) Summarise what has been said (4) Obtain closure on each issue or concern as it is discussed. Ending a meeting Ronald W Toseland Toseland and Robert F Rivas, 1984:332 and Robert F Rivas, 1984:332) ) Social Group Work 4 9/23/2024
Roles and responsibilities of group worker of ending (termination) phase (IGNOU, 2020:263 worker has to take into consideration number of measures to ensure smooth closure The worker has to have an idea as to the possible responses and reactions the members express for the ending - wavering between feelings of happiness or unhappiness (ambivalence) Roles and responsibilities of group worker of ending (termination) phase (IGNOU, 2020:263- -265) 265) Social Group Work 5 9/23/2024
Roles of worker during the ending (termination) phase Evaluator Referrals Coordinator Guide Counselor Roles of worker during the ending (termination) phase Social Group Work 6 9/23/2024
Prepare the members to the fact that whatever desirable behaviour patterns the member/s experience and exhibit have to be carried forward even after the group comes to an end. Create situations within the group environment and even identify the real life situations where the member/s can act out the changed behaviours independently Social Group Work 7 9/23/2024
Some follow-up sessions can be promised to reassure the member/s that they are not totally abandoned. Some support and guidance is still available either from worker. Arrange activities to express assessment of the progress already made by group and improvements to be made by each and every one of them. Make room for the group to deliberate upon what efforts the member/s have to make after the termination Social Group Work 8 9/23/2024
Suggest referral agencies to the members who need guidance and support for other shortcomings in future. Give assurance to the members that whatever self-disclosures made by them are kept confidential and will never be used against their interests. Prepare a report on the performance of the group, acknowledge the services and support given by resource agencies /persons, and pay the pending dues Social Group Work 9 9/23/2024
IGNOU (2020) MSW 008 - Social Group Work: Working with Groups (rev. ed.). New Delhi: School of Social Work, Indira Gandhi National Open University Toseland Ronald W and Rivas Robert F (1984) An Introduction to Group Work Practice, New York: McMillan Publishing Company Social Group Work 10 9/23/2024
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