Group Development and Working Interventions: A Study of Sixty Worker Interventions and Their Relation to Group Development in Six Student Placements in the New York Area, 1964
Abstract
From earliest times, man has lived in groups; has carried on his daily activities in such associations as the family, the work group, the community. Yet, it is only in recent times that the group has been conceived as an instrument to help man solve his problems in social functioning. The concept of the use of the group to help man in social welfare context had its beginnings in the settlement movement. In this frame of reference, the primary aim of the group was to help in the assimilation and socialization of the newly arrived immigrant. In time, psychiatrists experimented and began to use the group in their settings for primarily psychiatric or intrapsychic change goals. A brief history of the use of groups in this setting can be found in 1 an article by Grace Coyle who traces the development of groups on psychiatric settings.
Subject Area
Developmental psychology|Educational psychology
Recommended Citation
Taylor, Harriet Joy, "Group Development and Working Interventions: A Study of Sixty Worker Interventions and Their Relation to Group Development in Six Student Placements in the New York Area, 1964" (1965). ETD Collection for Fordham University. AAI31050530.
https://research.library.fordham.edu/dissertations/AAI31050530
