ABSTRACT
If we take an example of a method of practice, we are likely to find that it can be used in either a group or an individual context. For example, task-centred groupwork and taskcentred casework follow common task-centred principles and practice. The difference between task-centred groupwork and task-centred casework is, not unsurprisingly, the groupwork. We know what separates task-centred and cognitive behavioural models of
practice, but what is it that unites task-centred groupwork and cognitive behavioural groupwork? What is the groupwork that they have in common? Understanding what it is that constitutes this groupwork is very much what this book is about. When we conceptualise groupwork, therefore, there are at least two dimensions along which models must be judged; the first is the appropriateness of the practice model (taskcentred, cognitive-behavioural, etc.) and the second is the appropriateness of the group context.
