A focus on excluding community members

A focus on the community

A focus only on one individual client

A focus on profit generation only

Office aesthetics

Privacy

The social worker's favourite venue

A venue where others can overhear

Visiting churches in the local area to invite members for participation

Engaging community leaders to inform community members

Contacting potential members directly

Selecting members without explaining the group

Favourite television show

Common residential area

Same age group

Common problems

Rationale

Procedure

Evaluation

Reciprocal model

Social action model

Remedial model

Social goals model

Reciprocal model

Social marketing model

Remedial model

Social goals model

A member repeats a behaviour after receiving

approval from other members

A member learns only through reading policy

documents

A group changes because of community mapping

The social worker selects a venue for privacy

The number of forms available

The size of the agency building

The years of experience of the social worker

The objectives and goals of the group

Groups have no life cycle

Group forces have no effect on behaviour

Groups must relate to an external environment

and attend to internal functioning

Groups are unaffected by conflicts