THE REMEDIAL MODEL

Remedial Model
 Remedial model focuses on the individuals
dysfunction and utilizes the group as a context and
means for altering deviant behaviour.

 This approach to group work practice emphasizes its

utility in removing the adverse conditions of
individuals whose behaviour is disapproved by the
society.

 Tends to be clinically oriented.

 Facilitates the interaction among members of the

group to achieve change for the individual.

 The group supports the member, encouraging new,

more appropriate modes of functioning.

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Remedial Model

Who are the targets:

o Idle out-of-school youth

o Street children
o Drug users
o physically and mentally handicapped
o legal offenders
o emotionally disturbed
o isolated and alienated persons.

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The Treatment
Group
 A small social system whose influence can be
guided in planned ways to modify client
behavior.

 Social forces generated within small groups

are used deliberately to pursue goals for client
change.

 The worker influences the group’s

composition, development, and processes.

 The group is both “a means of treatment and a

context for treatment” .

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The Treatment
Robert D. Vinter’s

Sequence
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Treatment Sequence
• This process includes the client’s presentation of his needs or problems to the worker
• Agency application form refers to this as the “presenting problem”
• This process helps the worker to explore and study his/her client and the clients situation in order to arrive at a
Inta preliminary definition of his problem
ke

• Once the client status is established, the worker need to undertake more through assessment of each client’s
Diagn problems
osis • In making Diagnostic statements, the content must include the worker’s definition of the client’s social
and functioning problem. Workers statement goals as well as the plans for achieving these goals
Treat • Diagnosis statements are prepared for every member of the group and this record is very important
ment
Plann
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• Major tasks:
Group • First, the assignment of individual clients to groups which refers to earlier discussion about the group criteria for
Comp composition.
osition • Second, formulating the group treatment goals and corresponding plans to achieve them including the group
and activities or program media
Forma
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Treatment Sequence
• The worker will be guiding the group's interactions and structuring the
experiences to achieve the specific treatment goals she/he has for each
Group member.
Develo • The main concern is that the Group can become the most potent means
pmenta
l and possible to attain its ends
Treatm
ent

• is an evaluation of the clients' individual progress and a choice regarding whether or not to keep them as members of
the group individually or collectively.
• This stage will also involves the individual to prepare under the group for the impending separation once a decision to
terminate has been made.
• ff. reasons to terminate the case:
• if the case is apparent that treatment goals have been substantially achieved.
Evaluati • when the case appears that maximum benefits for the member client have been attained or with any anticipate
on and additional gains are insufficient to the member's continuation.
Terminat • clients are dropping out
• and lastly, the agency or group are unable to provide the service that are needed for whatever reason
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S T R AT E G I E S O F I N T E R V E N T I O N
 Direct means of Influence
 Indirect means of influence
 Extra group means of influence

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DIRECT MEANS OF INFLUENCE

An intervention to effect change

through immediate interaction with a
group member.

There is face-to-face contact

between the worker and the group
member, weather in the group or
outside the group

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DIRECT MEANS OF INFLUENCE
There are four types of this means of Influence:

1. Worker as central person

o Object of identification and drives. Her pre-eminence in the group, her competence and personal qualities that are valued by
members, the group's knowledge that she has considerable control over its destiny serve to make her a "a central person", a focal
point for group emotions.
o It is seen as focusing on the psychological relationships that are established between the worker and the group members.
o Identification (i.e., they want and try to be like her and drives (i.e., they invest emotions in her). These are affected by the kind of
person she is and how she interacts with her clients.

2. Worker as symbol and spokesman

o Agent of legitimate norms and values.
o There are many clients whose social functioning problems can be traced to socially unacceptable values and behavioral norms
which they have internalized, and which now have to be changed (re-socialization). Some clients have never acquired the values
and standards acceptable in larger society (socialization).
o These are often crucial treatment goals for individual clients, e.g., their adherence to laws, rules, roles prescriptions, patterns of
conduct, attitudes, etc.
o She can also use positive and negative sanctions, that is reward or punishment and she can set limits on the behavior of members,
by requiring or prohibiting certain behaviors. She can also controls including the use of coercion to prevent client from engaging
in destructive behavior, and expelling a client from a group if this is necessary.

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DIRECT MEANS OF INFLUENCE
There are four types of this means of Influence:
3. Worker as motivator and stimulator
o Definer of individual goals and tasks. It addresses individual member's interests, aims, activities and skills.
o The worker's influence can take the form of encouraging individuals to meet certain expectations engaging in different
behaviors or acting differently and stimulating a client toward new interests.
o How worker will motivate the client? -- incentives, inducements and rewards, and material.

4. Worker as executive-controller of members roles

o The group develops its own structure of roles, responsibilities and positions, with each member occupying certain
positions in the structure.
o Vinter submits that these structures may be deliberately modified by the worker based on treatment goals for the
individual members.
o The worker engages in any of the following actions:
a. She modifies her client's particular role or position within the structure.
b. She assists a member who holds a particular position in the group's structure to perform more effectively or differently
in this position.
c. She tries to change a group member's role behavior by improving self-esteem.

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 INDIRECT MEANS OF INFLUENCE
 these are intervention that modify condition affecting one or more group member they are
employed to influence the group so that they in turn influence the worker

Six (6) Indirect means of influence that can be

employed by the worker according to Vinter:

1.Group purposes
- the worker purposes for the group are the aims which
she formulates in order to achieve the treatment goals
that she has set for the individual members.

- The workers purpose (or treatment goals) for the

group determine certain actions stimulates which
affect the members. Among the actions are:
A.Selecting group members
B.Influencing the structure of the group
C.Determining with the group appropriate activities to
be undertaken
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 INDIRECT MEANS OF INFLUENCE
Six (6) Indirect means of influence that can be employed by the worker according to Vinter:
2.Selection of group members
-The workers purpose or goals for the group serve as her general guide for it's composition. She should ask the following questions: what in my
agency reason(s) for going into this particular group program? What do we want to accomplish? Who should I put together in the same group so
that my treatment goals are more likely to be achieved?

3.Nature of group activities

The worker goals or purpose for the group directly influence her choice of program media activities which are primary helping tools for working
with groups Such activities are carefully selected and the a deliberately used to effect desired changes in the individual members. It is therefore
essential that the worker most only have knowledge of a wide variety of activities.

4.Size of group
The size of the group affects members so that the worker has to decide what size will be most advantages given his treatment goals.

5.Group operating and governing procedure

-practice relating group operating and governing procedures. Some workers take an extremely permissive stance allowing the group to decide
what ever procedures it was to observe in the name of group self determination the unwanted of this some members or manipulate the situation.

6.Group development
-The worker’s task here is to influence the course of the group development so that her goals for the client are attained. She has to “act
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EXTRA GROUP MEANS OF INFLUENCE

 He calls this "extra group means of

influence" which include outside
activities conducted on behalf of
clients,"

 It involves extra group relations

"which refer to the behavior or
attitudes of persons in the client's
social environment or to large social
systems within which both clients and
others occupy statuses."

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EXTRA GROUP MEANS OF INFLUENCE
There are four major areas of extra group means of influence that may be used by the worker:
1.Social roles and relation of clients prior to client status.
- Client’s needs or problems which led to the provision of group service were being manifested in their social relations prior to
their becoming clients.
- These are called role-performance problems, which means that the individuals failed or were unable to meet the social
expectations from the role/s that they perform.

2."Significant Others."
This term refers to those persons outside of the treatment group who have crucial relations with clients, ie., persons whose
influence is important to the client's functioning: those involved in the maintenance of deviant behavior

3.Social systems of which clients are members.

Clients and the "significant othersare members of social systems characterized by certain patterns and conditions which can be
either resources or barriers to the achievement of treatment goals. Examples of these social systems are schools, hospital wards,
rehabilitation centers,

4.Social environment of the treatment group. T

The group's social environment "Includes the objects, persons, and other units collectively encountered by the group as a social
entity." The group's social en-vironment makes demands and puts pressures and constraints on the group - what the group can
and cannot do, the resources that may or may not be availed of, the negative or positive responses of the people around them.
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ThankYou

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