Developing a group work sequence: Bringing the community into group work

This paper describes how one graduate school of social work conceived and developed group work content in an advanced generalist curriculum for students preparing to address a broad range of social and personal problems in agency-based practices in troubled communities. As more social work programs adopt advanced generalist curricula, faculty struggle to frame (from multi-theoretical orientations) and articulate interventions effective with multi-problemed clients in a variety of practice arenas. At the University of Nevada-Reno, faculty developed group work content as an integral part of an advanced gen-eralist curriculum designed to enable graduates to perform mezzo-level assessments and interventions in the spectrum of micro- to macro-level practice.