Group Work Program at Grant Community Center: An Analysis of the Current Program With Special Emphasis on Its Attempt to Integrate the Residents of the Morningside Gardens and General Grant Houses, New York City, 1957-1959
Abstract
Work with groups is carried on by various auspices and for many different purposes. According to Wilson and Ryland: "There are many different methods, but each of them has this in common: the worker performs his function through participation in the interacting process between individuals in a group." Most social agencies serving groups have two common purposes. The first of these is to help the individual use groups to further his development. Secondly, to help groups to achieve ends desirable in an economic, political and social democracy. The two purposes merge ; for service to individuals is predicated upon service to the group-as-a-whole, and service to the group-as-a-whole is possible only through helping individuals. "Through this process individuals and groups contribute to society, whose development is dependent upon the changes which emerge from socially significant groups."
Subject Area
Management|Occupational psychology|Social work
Recommended Citation
Kearns, Kathleen G, "Group Work Program at Grant Community Center: An Analysis of the Current Program With Special Emphasis on Its Attempt to Integrate the Residents of the Morningside Gardens and General Grant Houses, New York City, 1957-1959" (1959). ETD Collection for Fordham University. AAI30557705.
https://research.library.fordham.edu/dissertations/AAI30557705
