This article reviews relevant issues in the practice of clinical social group work. The following issues are reviewed: group versus individual treatment, the advantages of group work, rationale for the use of the group work approach, group conditions for change, the role of the worker in groups, group composition, technique and method in group practice, time as a dimension in group work, pretherapy training, precautions in group therapy, and methodological difficulties in social group work The article concludes with a discussion of the implications of issues reviewed for clinical social group work
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