Turning Points in Group Life: Using High-Tension Moments to Promote Group Purpose and Mutual Aid

2003 ◽  
Vol 84 (3) ◽  
pp. 433-440 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alex Gitterman ◽  
Julianne Wayne
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Factors ◽  
Interpersonal Relationships ◽  
Social Worker ◽  
Group Composition ◽  
Turning Points ◽  
Mutual Aid ◽  
Group Life ◽  
High Tension ◽  
Group Members ◽  
Professional Interventions

The interactions among and between group members and a social worker often generate natural interpersonal tensions in group life. If handled with skill, these difficult moments have the potential to become significant turning points in members' ability to feel safe in the group and in their motivation to achieve the group's purpose through a mutual aid process. In this article the authors examine five areas of group life that are often sources of tension-filled situations. These areas are group composition, group purpose and the working agreement, the worker's authority, members' interpersonal relationships, painful material, and environmental factors. The authors recommend professional interventions aimed at converting high-tension moments into incidents that promote trust, caring, and mutual aid.

Migration, Language, Identity: The Journey of Meixian Hakkas from Calcutta to Vienna

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ralf Vollmann ◽  
◽  
Wooi Soon Tek ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Identity ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Mutual Support ◽  
Minority Culture ◽  
Language Identity ◽  
Closed Group ◽  
Group Life ◽  
Group Members ◽  
Close Friendship ◽  
Younger Generation

Hakkas from Meizhou who migrated to Calcutta established suc¬cessful businesses, and then, in the 1970s to the 1990s, moved on to settle in Vienna (and Toronto). Prac¬ticing a closed-group life both in Vienna and across continents, the Hakkas preserved their lan¬gua¬ge and culture while adapting both to India and Austria in various ways. In a series of open interviews with Vienna-based Hakkas, questions of identity and the preservation of a minority culture are raised. In dependence to age, the consultants have very different personal identities behind a shared social identity of being ‘Indian Hak¬ka¬s,’ which is, however, mostly borne out of practical considerations of mutual support and certain cultural practices. As mi¬grants, they can profit from close friendship and loyalty between group members, sharing the same pro¬fes¬sions, marrying inside the group, and speaking their own language. Questions of identity are most¬ly relevant for the younger generation which has to deal with a confusingly layered familial iden¬tity.

Modernité et néo-clercs

1982 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 283-295 ◽  
Author(s):  
Josianne Bodart
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Social Worker ◽  
Turn Of The Century ◽  
The Body ◽  
Mutual Aid ◽  
Medical Field ◽  
Reference Models ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
And Training

While mutual aid is secular, social work as a profession is not yet a hundred years old, and training in this field only began at the turn of the century. Neither priest nor doctor, but equally devoted and competent, the social worker is half-way between the two. His relay function is mediatized by a salary received not from his client, but from an institution which acknowledges he has a cer tain effectiveness. Social work thus reminds us at one and the same time of the priest's priesthood and the doctor's specializa tion. This neo-cleric treats the soul as well as the body and he has ambiguous relations with spelialized institutions which are in pur suit of the sacred or in pursuit of health. The social worker tries to find reference models both in the religious world and in the medi cal world. Furthermore, an analysis of his discourse reveals that he mobilizes items of counter-legitimacy with respect to both the religious and the medical field. This intentionally marginal belonging to two worlds leads him to constantly have doubts about the objectives to be pursued and the decisions to be taken. It is probably in this perspective that the feeling of uneasiness which persuades the world of social work and which prevents these professionals from getting away from vagueness and uncertainty, should be understood.

scholarly journals Restrictive and driving factors for teamwork in primary health care

2020 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Letícia Gabriela De Almeida Noce ◽  
Carolina Feliciana Bracarense ◽  
Bibiane Dias Miranda Parreira ◽  
Ana Lúcia de Assis Simões ◽  
Lucieli Dias Pedreschi Chaves ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Interpersonal Relationships ◽  
Family Health ◽  
Driving Factors ◽  
Mutual Aid ◽  
Health Strategy ◽  
The Family ◽  
Thematic Units ◽  
Family Health Strategy ◽  
Service Training ◽  
Restrictive Factors

To identify, from the professionals' perspective, restrictive and driving factors for teamwork, in the Family Health Strategy. Descriptive study / qualitative approach, carried out with a Family Health Strategy team, in a municipality in the interior of Minas Gerais. Population constituted of nine professionals working in the team for at least six months, interviewed in August / 2016. Data analysis followed content analysis, thematic modality. Nine professionals participated: six community health agents, one physician, one dentist and one oral health aide. The results that emerged from the interviews were grouped by content affinity, in four thematic units, of which two referred to difficulties (restrictive factors) and two, to facilities (driving factors) for teamwork. Restrictive factors for teamwork were included in thematic units: Inadequate organization and resources and weakened interpersonal relationships. It has been shown that inadequate organization / resources and fragile interpersonal relationships restrict and limit teamwork in the Family Health Strategy. The driving factors for teamwork were gathered in thematic units: In-service training and interpersonal relationships based on appropriate collaboration and communication. It was verified that in-service training and interpersonal relationship, based on collaboration, mutual aid and communication, impelled the said teamwork. Both the restrictive and the driving factors for teamwork are linked to the conditions for carrying out the work and the relationship between team agents. The evidence found in this research can lead to advances in organizational behavior, with emphasis on management practices aimed at ensuring and supporting the effective development of the teamwork modality

Toward a Typology of Crowdfunding Motivations

2016 ◽  
pp. 108-128
Author(s):  
Leela Vedantam
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Factors ◽  
Income Group ◽  
Financial Assistance ◽  
Regulatory Regime ◽  
Checks And Balances ◽  
Modern Approach ◽  
Group Members ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Financial Regulatory ◽  
Good Cause

Crowdfunding is a modern approach to provide real-time financial assistance to those entrepreneurs who are interested in starting seed ventures. This phenomenon is developing slowly and the financial regulators are considering options to put appropriate checks and balances to regulate these activities. Although the experience of crowdfunding may not be satisfying as it ought to be, but there a sense of willingness on the part of the civil society to participate in crowdfunding as it is associated with a good cause. It is important to note that crowdfunding as a system is being based amongst small and mid-sized income group members. The motivation to support the cause of entrepreneurs is growing as the fund lenders are novice and in the threshold stage of supporting such seed ventures. The motivations of fund lender differ depending on their personal and environmental factors, especially in connection to the emerging laws and mandatory disclosures under the financial regulatory regime. In this paper, the focus is on (i) identification of what motivates fund lenders to support entrepreneurs and the impact of the fund movement.

The Mentally Ill in Your Caseload

2016 ◽  
pp. 409-420
Author(s):  
Donald W. Winnicott
Keyword(s):  
Mental Illness ◽  
Environmental Factors ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Social Worker ◽  
Mentally Ill ◽  
Emotional Development ◽  
The Social ◽  
Dynamic Psychology ◽  
The Individual

In this talk delivered to social workers, Winnicott brings his understanding of professional psychiatry, with its attempts to treat severe mental illness using a more humane approach, together with his belief in dynamic psychology—the emotional development of the individual derived from the study of psychoanalysis—into a closer connection with one another. He charts a brief outline of psychoanalysis and interprets the psychoses through it. He sees the importance of early environmental factors in mental illness and the possible effects of this on maturation. He comments on depression both normal and psychotic in type, on his theories of personalization, of feeling real, and, through early dependence, the gradual growth of the functioning self. He also gives an empathic view of the role of the social worker in the difficult work of treating acute mental ill health.

The Group Experience in Camping

Not Just Play ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 105-116
Author(s):  
William Schwartz ◽  
Lawrence Shulman
Keyword(s):  
Social Worker ◽  
Group Work ◽  
Group Interaction ◽  
Time Frame ◽  
Mutual Aid ◽  
Interactional Model ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Group Experience

“The Group Experience in Camping: Observations from Schwartz and Shulman” pairs an April 1960 article by social worker William Schwartz with commentary by Lawrence Shulman, who has continued to enhance Schwartz’s Mutual Aid or Interactional model of group work. Schwartz explores some factors inherent in the resident camp setting as a unique group experience: the compressed time frame, the rapid demand for intimacy, being away from home and “insulated” from the outside world. All these aspects produce intense cabin-group interaction. Schwartz discusses several implications related to the camp milieu that impact the individual camper. Shulman introduces the article by providing a snapshot of Schwartz’s perspective and follows the article with an analysis proposing that Schwartz’s 1960 article represents a way-station en route to the model he elaborated in 1961.

Beyond solidarity and mutual aid: Tension and conflict in burial groups in rural Uganda

2020 ◽  
pp. 002087281989682
Author(s):  
Laban Kashaija Musinguzi ◽  
Jude T Rwemisisi ◽  
Emmanueil Benon Turinawe ◽  
Danny De Vries ◽  
Marije De Groot ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Mutual Aid ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Felt Sense ◽  
Group Members ◽  
Ethnographic Data ◽  
Sense Of Identity

Drawing from ethnographic data collected between 2012 and 2014 and January and June 2018 in Luwero district, Uganda, this article questions the romanticised depiction of burial groups as a means of enhancing social support, a sense of solidarity and mutual aid. We found that the felt sense of identity and belonging for members is not shared across community members, and that solidary relations between members and non-group members in the community are fraught with tensions and conflicts. Beyond the romanticised view of burial groups, we need to study burial groups as a model of solidarity in disunity and diversity.

The Variations of Quality Characteristics According to Environmental Factors of High Tension Bolt, Nut and Washer Set

2008 ◽  
Vol 580-582 ◽  
pp. 681-686 ◽  
Author(s):  
H.G. Suk ◽  
D.S. Kim ◽  
Song Hee Kim ◽  
I.S. Cho
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Factors ◽  
Storage Period ◽  
High Strength ◽  
Quality Characteristics ◽  
Quality Change ◽  
High Strength Bolt ◽  
High Tension ◽  
And Storage ◽  
Extreme Care

Because the fastener tension of high strength bolt, nut, and washer set is subject to the environmental factors such as temperature, humidity and storage period, extreme care should be taken during the joining and storage of such products. In case quality change is anticipated, the parts shall certainly be inspected.

Collaborative Problem-Solving with Logo: Effects of Group Size and Group Composition

1987 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 313-334 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edgar Guntermann ◽  
Mariela Tovar
Keyword(s):  
Group Composition ◽  
Process Analysis ◽  
Collaborative Problem Solving ◽  
Experimental Session ◽  
Female Group ◽  
Practice Session ◽  
Collaborative Problem ◽  
Interaction Processes ◽  
Group Members ◽  
Mixed Groups

This study investigated productivity in individuals versus groups of two or three as well as the interaction processes underlying differences between dyads and triads and differences between male, female or mixed groups learning LOGO on microcomputers. Thirty-six students aged ten learned LOGO individually or in groups of two or three for one session, had a practice session, then were required to produce a graphic in LOGO for the experimental session. No differences were found between individuals and groups, in terms of productivity. Group interaction (as measured by the Bales Interaction Process Analysis [1], was found to be similar in two and three person groups. However, significant ( p < .05) differences were observed among male, female, and mixed groups. The direction of these differences were as follows: males displayed more solidarity than females or mixed groups, the female group members were much more likely to express agreement with their peers than were members of the males group. There was also more asking of information in the male groups than the female groups. Finally, males expressed much more antagonism than females or mixed groups. These results are discussed in light of previous studies in this area.

scholarly journals CONFLICTS IN STUDENT GROUPS WITH DIFFERENT COMPOSITION BY SEX

2021 ◽  
pp. 117-128
Author(s):  
O. Myroshnyk
Keyword(s):  
Interpersonal Relationships ◽  
Educational Institution ◽  
Structural Features ◽  
Group Activity ◽  
Student Groups ◽  
Vertical Relationships ◽  
Emotional Component ◽  
Educational Groups ◽  
Group Members ◽  
Student’S T

The article is devoted to the study of the peculiarities of conflicts in mixed and same-sex student groups. The theoretical basis of the study was the position of the structural features of interpersonal interaction in the middle of the group, including the substructure of horizontal and vertical relationships in the instrumental and expressive spheres of group activity. The study of conflict in student groups was based on the analysis of the characteristics of interpersonal relationships between group members in certain areas. To study the peculiarities of conflict in groups of different sexes, a questionnaire was developed, which provided an opportunity to determine the overall assessment of conflict, conflict in the vertical and horizontal subsystems of group activity, as well as in its instrumental and expressive areas. 188 students from 10 academic groups of the higher educational institution took part in the survey. Of these, six were sexually homogeneous and four heterogeneous. According to the results of the survey, the gender composition of student educational groups is more related to the emotional component of group activity and the horizontal substructure of intragroup relationships. These trends were confirmed using the methods of mathematical statistics (Student’s t-test). The results suggest that gender-mixed academic groups are more resistant to conflict triggers than homogeneous ones. However the composition of the group on the basis of gender can not be considered a factor that directly determines the conflict in the field of solving business problems, as well as interaction with teachers, officials of the dean’s office and student government.

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