title: Social work groups in health care settings: four emerging approaches.
abstract: The impact of medical technology, with its organizational consequences for patients and health providers, serves as a basis for the differential use of four models of group work practice identified from a review of articles in professional journals. Models emphasize patient compliance and marketing of services, reciprocal patient-system relations, social care and self-help. Examples and practice issues for each approach are specified.
authors.forename: G S
authors.initials: GS
authors.lastname: Getzel
mesh_terms: D006126:Group Processes; D006748:Hospital Departments; D006801:Humans; D008389:Marketing of Health Services; D008960:Models, Psychological; D010349:Patient Compliance; D012657:Self-Help Groups; D012944:Social Support; D012947:Social Work; D012948:Social Work Department, Hospital