HOW SOCIAL GROUP WORKER HELP CHANGE UNACCEPTABLE VALUES

Whether or not we wish it or are aware of its implications, unacceptable values are deviant behaviours and these activities affect the social attitudes of people ways which are vital both to themselves and to society. This paper is an attempt to point out a few of the ways in which social group workers may contribute to social change in essential and significant respects of unacceptable behaviours. The paper is descriptive and uses secondary data and information from sociological construction of realities, thus, theory and practice will depend upon whether we, as group-workers, adopt educational objectives which recognize meeting social needs as well as individual growth and institutional advancement. For the fulfilling of such objectives the group-worker will require not only a set of techniques-valuable as these are not only a skill in program making or in organization, but, the courage to turn his philosophy into action. Only so can a group worker engage with client to change behavioural defects, what is perhaps more important, an adequate citizen of a new age.