ABSTRACT
In keeping with our earlier discussion of the central importance of group workers ‘thinking group’—that is, working from the perspective of the group-as-a-whole—these guidelines proceed from a view, shared by Glisson, that the focus must be on the group as the unit of attention. This chapter focuses on the ways in which group workers can understand and enhance their own practice. Group workers are advised to keep a ‘record of service’, which is a log or process record of what takes place in the group. Making and taking opportunities to reflect and to develop one’s capabilities is vital to ‘keeping afloat’—and keeping ahead—in practice that is enormously complex and uncertain. It underscores the fact that the group worker practitioner-in-action is also a group worker theoretician-in-action.
