What is the importance of group-work in the field of social work?

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Involving a group
in any social work endeavor allows for multiple viewpoints and sources of input as the
work progresses. This becomes important when the purpose of the work involves making
decisions that may affect the lives of the persons or organizations at the center of the
effort. If the value of an after-school program is being evaluated to determine
continued funding, for example, using a group of people to collect data will permit
contact with a larger number of former, current, and possible future participants. A
group will have a larger combined amount of time to spend interviewing, auditing
records, and developing conclusions. To have such a process completed by one person
would greatly reduce the amount of information collected or would hugely increase the
time involved in gathering the information, and would allow any biases that one
individual might bring to the project to go unchecked by other opinions.

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