Abstract
Group Social Work does not only mean knowing the most significant group treatment processes. It is necessary to understand the experiences, expectations and motivations that each participant as an individual brings to the group and that will certainly play an important role throughout the course of the group and individual processes. This approach, developed in treatment at the German program Freiwillige soziale Jah , is relevant in a family monograph since it offers the possibility of understanding participants as human beings immersed and interwoven in diverse relationships and as main actors in vitally important psychosocial processes. Throughout the article, the family dynamics and evolutionary aspects of the program’s participants are considered. This description is followed by a social environmental analysis and ends by reviewing the professional’s attitude towards group intervention, as well as the view that the professional uses to construct the subjects with whom s/he works. The reflections shared in this article are intended to point out the useless separation often made between an individual and his or her context and underline the importance of activating dialogic tools that, distanced from coercive premises, result in relationships based on trust and cooperation.
Highlights
Group Social Work does mean knowing the most significant group treatment processes
Un contexto empobrecido económica y socialmente ofrece pocas alternativas para impulsar espacios de colaboración y mentalización
En este sentido el Freiwillige soziale Jahr, como encuentro grupal en un contexto comunitario y a través de ciertas actividades, ofrece la posibilidad de facilitar ciertos procesos de introspección basados en vínculos seguros entre los participantes, que incluyen también al profesional
Summary
Recibido: 27/03/2013 Revisado: 03/07/2013 Aceptado: 24/09/2013 Disponible on line: 20/12/2013. Resumen El Trabajo Social con grupos no implica únicamente conocer los procesos grupales más significativos de la intervención. Desde ese punto de vista, compartir en el monográfico de familia esta experiencia grupal, desarrollada en el programa alemán Freiwillige soziale Jahr, ofrece la posibilidad de entender a los participantes del grupo como seres inmersos y entrelazados en diversas relaciones y, protagonistas de procesos psicosociales de vital importancia. A lo largo del artículo se consideran las dinámicas relacionales y los aspectos evolutivos de los beneficiarios del programa, para proceder a un análisis del contexto social que recale finalmente en la revisión de la actitud del profesional frente a la intervención grupal, así como la mirada que utiliza para construir a los sujetos con quienes trabaja. Palabras clave: diferenciación, mentalización, vínculo, constructivismo, trabajo social en Alemania
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