Knowledge and Skills Needed by Managers and Supervisors of Social Group Work Practice in Agencies Serving Persons with Severe Mental Illnesses

doi:10.4324/9780203048665-10

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Knowledge and Skills Needed by Managers and Supervisors of Social Group Work Practice in Agencies Serving Persons with Severe Mental Illnesses

ABSTRACT

Social Group Work. It appears that we have almost forgotten this art. Schools of Social Work really do so little with it now. Group Work was one of the central tracks in graduate social work programs, and the principles of social group work are directly transferable to psychiatric rehabilitation. In fact, we do it all the time, but without the body of knowledge that Social Group Work gives to us.