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    Group counseling began gaining prominence in the late 1800s. Joseph Pratt held one of the first formal therapeutic groups in the late 1800s. In the early 1900s, Jesse Davis introduced group work in schools. Frank Parsons used groups for career and vocational development. During WWI, groups were used to combat fatigue in soldiers. In the 1920s, Trigant Burrow, Alfred Adler, and Jacob Moreno developed key foundations of group therapy. The 1930s saw the developmental period of group work in schools and clinics. Kurt Lewin's research in the 1940s established group dynamics theory. In the 1950s and 1960s, theorists further developed the understanding of group processes and dynamics.

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    Group counseling began gaining prominence in the late 1800s. Joseph Pratt held one of the first formal therapeutic groups in the late 1800s. In the early 1900s, Jesse Davis introduced group work in schools. Frank Parsons used groups for career and vocational development. During WWI, groups were used to combat fatigue in soldiers. In the 1920s, Trigant Burrow, Alfred Adler, and Jacob Moreno developed key foundations of group therapy. The 1930s saw the developmental period of group work in schools and clinics. Kurt Lewin's research in the 1940s established group dynamics theory. In the 1950s and 1960s, theorists further developed the understanding of group processes and dynamics.

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    Group counseling began gaining prominence in the late 1800s. Joseph Pratt held one of the first formal therapeutic groups in the late 1800s. In the early 1900s, Jesse Davis introduced group work in schools. Frank Parsons used groups for career and vocational development. During WWI, groups were used to combat fatigue in soldiers. In the 1920s, Trigant Burrow, Alfred Adler, and Jacob Moreno developed key foundations of group therapy. The 1930s saw the developmental period of group work in schools and clinics. Kurt Lewin's research in the 1940s established group dynamics theory. In the 1950s and 1960s, theorists further developed the understanding of group processes and dynamics.

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    The timeline shows that group work has been used therapeutically since the late 1800s and its uses and theories have expanded significantly over time.

    Some early uses of group work included Joseph Pratt using it with tuberculosis patients in the late 1800s, and its use with soldiers in World War 1 to combat fatigue and what is now known as PTSD.

    Influential early theorists and developers included Moreno who developed psychodrama, Burrow who coined the term 'group analysis', and Lewin who began the study of group dynamics and is considered the founder of modern group dynamics.

    TIMELINE OF THE HISTORICAL FOUNDATION OF GROUP WORK

    YEAR
    Late
    1800
    s

    SIGNIFICANT PERSON(S)
    Joseph Pratt
    (a Boston internist)
    (sometimes called the "father of
    group psychotherapy)

    1907

    Jesse Davis

    Frank Parsons
    (founder of the vocational
    guidance or school counselling
    profession)
    World
    War 1

    1918

    Edward Lazell
    (used a psychoeducational group

    CONTRIBUTION
    He established the first group
    experience. He used groups to
    save time in educating and
    supporting
    students
    and
    discovered therapeutic value in
    the format.
    He held one of the first formal
    therapeutic groups, when he
    brought together 15 of his
    tuberculosis patients in order
    to educate them about the
    disease and allow them to
    discuss
    their
    common
    problems. According to Rutan
    and Stone, "Pratt reported very
    positive results from this new
    type of treatment."
    Introduced group work in a
    school setting.
    Davis groups were intended to
    provide students with effective
    tools for making educational,
    vocational and moral decisions.
    He emphasized the use of the
    group
    as
    an
    effective
    environment for teaching life
    skills and values.
    He used groups to facilitate
    career
    and
    vocational
    development.
    Group work was emphasized
    as it was used as tests for
    soldiers and were instructed in
    groups and teamwork.
    Groups were used to combat
    fatigue,
    known
    today
    as
    Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
    (PTSD)
    He presented lectures on
    Freudian psychology to groups

    model)

    1928

    Trigant Burrow

    Alfred Adler

    Jacob Levy Moreno


    (a JewishRomanian-born AustrianAmerican leading psychiatrist and
    psychosociologist, thinker and
    educator, the founder
    of psychodrama, and the
    foremost pioneer of group
    psychotherapy)

    Lewis Wender

    of
    schizophrenic
    patients,
    which
    exhibited
    positive
    behavioural changes and a
    reduction in the use of
    sedatives.
    He treated neurotic patients in
    groups.
    And was the first to use the
    phrase group analysis and
    later
    changed
    it
    to
    phyloanalysis.
    He emphasized the innate
    social nature of human beings
    to support a group treatment
    model.
    Investigated the relationship
    between childrens relationship
    and family experiences.
    Developed
    group
    family
    meetings and improve family
    relations and became known
    as collective counselling.
    Psychodrama. The father of
    therapeutic group work and
    active interventions in group
    work
    Group
    psychotherapy,
    psychodrama, sociodrama and
    other
    intervention
    were
    developed to provide people
    with opportunities to explore
    social
    relationships
    in
    laboratory
    settings.
    They
    provided an opportunity for
    healing produced by forces of
    the group itself.
    Morenos
    system
    was
    designed to treat not only the
    disturbed individual nor the
    even the poorly functioning
    group but actually all of
    mankind
    Articulated the first guidelines
    for group therapeutic factors

    1930
    s

    Developmental Period

    S. R. Slavson
    (founder and president-emeritus
    of the American Group
    Psychotherapy Association)

    1940
    s

    Kurt Lewin
    (known as the founder of the
    modern group dynamics; his
    approach was known as the Field
    Theory))

    Late
    1940
    s

    Wilfred Bion

    Group work in the schools


    underwent a transition from
    predominantly
    a
    psychoeducational usage to a
    more
    balanced
    use
    of
    classroom
    guidance
    (psychoeducational
    group
    work) and group counselling, in
    both
    elementary
    and
    secondary settings.
    whose
    knowledge
    of
    psychology was largely selfacquired, was prominent in the
    development
    of
    group
    psychotherapy
    He was prominent for the
    development of group therapy
    in the New York area, where he
    conducted childrens groups in
    the pre-war years.
    He emphasized the importance
    of understanding emotional
    dimensions in the relationships
    of each member to the
    therapist and to other group
    members.
    He began the study of
    intergroup relations.
    He viewed groups as agents of
    change and has been credited
    with the invention of training
    groups (T-groups).
    Field Theory emphasized the
    interaction between individuals
    and their environment, and he
    was heavily influenced by the
    Gestalt Psychology.
    Bions theory is based in large
    part on his work managing a
    rehabilitation
    unit
    for
    psychiatric patients in the
    British Army during World War
    II and later with small groups
    at the Tavistock Clinic. The

    central concept in
    theory is that in every
    two groups exist: the
    group
    and
    the
    assumption group
    1952
    1960
    s

    American School Counselor


    Association (ASCA)

    Bions
    group,
    work
    basic

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