ABSTRACT

Given the escalating amount and ever increasing impact of natural, human-made, and accidental disasters in our local, national, and global communities, the application of group work is vital to the physical, psychological, mental, and emotional well being of victims, responders, witnesses, and bystanders. Group work may well become the predominant human response vehicle of our generation, thus making group leadership skills and group process expertise in the various forms of group work a basic necessity for meeting the needs of people affected by disasters across the entire continuum of crisis response from rescue and recovery to community action planning and preparation.