ABSTRACT
As an international city, Hong Kong is affected by values from different ethnic groups, especially from Britain and America. Likewise social work practice and education have also been imported from Britain and America and adopted for use locally. Despite the demand for indigenous materials in the 1960s, it is only in the last decade that more local writing has emerged. For example, a book on Group Work Practice (Ng et al., 1992) was prepared and incorporated reflections on the application of group work models in the local context. Pearson (1991) addressed particularly the cultural issues in group work practice and pointed out some of the incompatibilities between Western theories and the Eastern practice of group work.
