THE USE OF PROGRAM

Abstract

This paper focuses on whar has been thought of in social group work as "program"-program skills, program content, program media, or use of program- and what is now known as nonverbals, exercises, simulations or games, or expressive therapy. Certain dilemmas of rhe past, e.g., process vs. product (content), talking vs. doing, social work vs. recreation, are reviewed as obstacles to the integration of doing-oriented activities within the major rheorerical approaches to group work in social work. Such obstacles haw been less encumbering to other professions which have presently assumed the dominant theorerical leadership in this area. Some recent developments in knowledge, technology, and social-culrural forces are described which have contributed to a present milieu that places increased value of diverse modes of expressiveness. The paper concludes with seven future-oriented proposals that theory, practice, and research in this area demand.

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