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Social group work is a method of social work that enhance people's social functioning through purposeful group experiences, and to cope more effectively with personal, group or community problems (Marjorie Murphy, 1959). Social group work is a primary modality of social work in bringing about positive change.
Social group work and group psychotherapy have primarily developed along parallel paths. Where the roots of contemporary group psychotherapy are often traced to the group education classes of tuberculosis patients conducted by Joseph Pratt in 1906, the exact birth of social group work can not be easily identified (Kaiser, 1958; Schleidlinger, 2000; Wilson, 1976).
Critical consciousness, conscientization, or conscientização in Portuguese (Portuguese pronunciation: [kõsjẽtʃizaˈsɐ̃w]), is a popular education and social concept developed by Brazilian pedagogue and educational theorist Paulo Freire, grounded in neo-Marxist critical theory.
The Cockburn Scale categorizes projects according to "criticality" and "size". Process criticality is defined as the worst probable effect of an unremedied defect: Loss of Life (L) Loss of Essential Money (E) Loss of Discretionary Money (D) Loss of Comfort (C) Process size is defined as the size of the project's development staff.
Group dynamics is a system of behaviors and psychological processes occurring within a social group (intragroup dynamics), or between social groups (intergroup dynamics). The study of group dynamics can be useful in understanding decision-making behaviour, tracking the spread of diseases in society, creating effective therapy techniques, and ...
Critical practice is the methodology used by a critic or observer to understand and evaluate a field of knowledge.While sometimes the fields of knowledge studied are academic, non-academic fields such as merchandising, law enforcement and medical clinical practice have been extensively studied.
Criticality (status), a milestone in the commissioning of a nuclear power plant; Criticality accident, an uncontrolled nuclear chain reaction; Nuclear criticality safety, the prevention of nuclear and radiation accidents resulting from an inadvertent, self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction; Prompt critical, an assembly for each nuclear fission ...
The group and the leader meet and s/he consults the entire group at once, asking for opinions and information, then comes to a decision. Facilitate The leader takes on a cooperative holistic approach, collaborating with the group as a whole as they work toward a unified and consensual decision.