Promoting Professional Competence in Social Work with Groups for Task Groups through Transformative Learning

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  • KURODA Aya
    東北福祉大学総合福祉学部社会福祉学科

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  • タスク・グループへの介入を意識したグループワークの専門教育――意識変容を目指して――
  • タスク ・ グループ エ ノ カイニュウ オ イシキ シタ グループワーク ノ センモン キョウイク : イシキ ヘンヨウ オ メザシテ

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<p>As conflict continues to be a pressing issue, social workers need to promote professional competence for conflict resolution and facilitating group decision making. This is especially true when working on task groups that are designed to enable professionals from different disciplines or with different roles to coordinate their work toward a common purpose to improve the quality of client service delivery. However, in Japan there is a strong conformity around group members, even if they disagree or develop a feeling of dissatisfaction, in order to avoid apparent conflict. For the above reason, this article investigates the transformation of students’ cognitive framework against conforming behaviors among a task group and explores the possibility to develop their perceptional images of conflict through transformative learning in an educational lab. As a result, their cognitive framework for conflict has been transformed from the avoidance tendency to more collaborative problem-solving manner.</p>

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