ABSTRACT
Many social workers today have some knowledge of work with groups and of group dynamics. Group workers, community workers and residential workers all work with groups during much of their working time. It is essential to keep the purposes of the group in mind and from time to time to reassess its activities and functioning in the light of these purposes. There are many things that are better learned in a group than in an individual session. At the beginning of this chapter Kadushin was quoted as saying that ‘in group supervision the supervisor, given educational and administrative responsibility for the activities of a specific number of workers, meets with them as a group to discharge these responsibilities’. In this chapter, the authors have discussed various tasks the team leader must undertake in order to use the group effectively either as a vehicle for staff development or to work on administrative tasks such as allocation of work or policy implementation.
