Developing a Group Work Sequence

ABSTRACT

This paper describes how one graduate school of social work conceived and developed group work content in an advanced generalist curriculum for students preparing to address a broad range of social and personal problems in agency-based practices in troubled communities. As more social work programs adopt advanced generalist curricula, faculty struggle to frame (from multi-theoretical orientations) and articulate interventions effective with multi-problemed clients in a variety of practice arenas. At the University of Nevada-Reno, faculty developed group work content as an integral part of an advanced gen-eralist curriculum designed to enable graduates to perform mezzo-level assessments and interventions in the spectrum of micro- to macro-level practice.