Swimming upstream: A survey of articles on groupwork in social work journals 1986-87

Abstract

This is a literature review of articles appearing in weekly social work journals 1986-1987, describing groupwork projects and developments. The articles were classified into the following categories groupwork methods; groups used in child abuse; women’s group; ethnic issues; parents groups; work with offenders; groups for elderly and physically handicapped people and self-help groups. The paper gives a brief description of the groupwork, and discusses the implications of this work for service delivery particularly in local authority social work departments.
Publisher’s note: We are now putting all back issues of Groupwork on line. Articles in this issue have been scanned to pdf files as viable original typesetting files no longer exist. Though they may not look it, these files are searchable. This issue was published nearly 30 years ago. We have stated author professional details as received at time of publication.