How Teaching Group Work Can Be Guided by Foundational Documents: Best Practice Guidelines, Diversity Principles, Training Standards

Improving Student Confidence in Using Group Work Standards

“…Practice standards are essential for advancing appropriate and effective group work. One of the functions of group work standards is to encourage evolving aspirations or “continual quality advancement” (Wilson, Rapin, & Haley-Banez, 2004, p. 22). The International Association for the Advancement of Social Work with Groups (IASWG)—social work’s only organization dedicated to group work—developed Standards for Social Work Practice with Groups (IASWG, 2006).…”

The Supervision of Group Work Model: Adapting the Discrimination Model for Supervision of Group Workers

“…In addition, many authors (Altfeld & Bernard, 1997;Kline, 2003;Wilson, Rapin, & Haley-Banez, 2004) support the contention that supervision is essential to developing competence in group work.…”