Groupwork in Social Work Education, Practice and Research: Being and Joining Together

Presented by: Carol Cohan, Adelphi University, New York, USA, Pr. Michael Preston-Shoot., Bedforshire University, UK & Sagario Segado Sanchez-Cabezudo, University of Distance Education, Madrid.

Group membership appears central to human experience and the promotion of social justice.
However social work educators, practitioners, researchers, and partners rarely have
opportunities to talk together about impacts, joys and demands of groupwork. This proposed
session will engage participants with unifying interests in groupwork to enhance and mobilize
their future work, individually and in connection. We propose this Workshop for attendees to
discuss their group and team related experiences, innovative strategies and research interests.
This session is unusual in drawing participants across geographic boundaries, fields of practice,
and intervention approaches.