Rural Camp Essay

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Introduction: The rural camp was designed to increase students’ knowledge and skill in social work practice with groups. It promotes the holistic development of the students. The camp provides ample opportunities for students to fine tune their interpersonal relationship skills through the process of group dynamics. Through this assignment the trainee has tried to explore the models of group work, the types, principles, values, skills and techniques used during the rural camp. Content: Social group work is a method of social work , which helps to establish constructive relationship with each other. Thus it is important to know what is group in general. Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary define group as number of people things that are together in the same place or that are connected in some way. Group also can be defined as a collection of individuals who have regular contact and frequent interaction, mutual influence, common feeling of camaraderie, and who work together to achieve a common set of goals. A group can be made up of two or more people. The social group work can be defined as any two or more people in social interaction who share expectations and responsibilities to the group and who share a unifying characteristic or sense of purpose. The study of social groups is conducted by sociologists who analyze behavior and interactions among people and show how these interactions shape societies. According to Trecker H.B. (1955) Social group work is a method through which individuals in groups in social agency setting are helped by a worker who guides their interaction in programme activities so that they may relate to others and experience growth opportunities in accordance with their needs and capacities to the individual, group and community development. Knokpka (1963) defined social group work as “a method of social work which helps
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