Similarities and Differences in Casework and Group Work Practice

Abstract

Current interest of caseworkers in work with families and with groups of clients other than families, and of group workers in understanding and dealing with the individual personality and behavioral problems of their clientele outside of the group milieu, has led to increased effort to devise appropriate educational measures by which practitioners of each method may share knowledge with their colleagues. Among the steps which have been taken in our national organization, in the Curriculum Study, in some schools, and in social welfare agencies have been efforts to identify some of the common elements of casework and