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Process of an Idea–How the Relational Model of Group Work Developed

What if what I had learned about groups in social work school was wrong–at least some of the time? And who was I anyway to challenge the prevailing wisdom? I had this fairly radical thought early one very cold winter morning in November 1993. I was driving on route 128 on my way to present a workshop about survivors of sexual abuse to an agency on the North Shore, and I had just joined the faculty at Boston University as a part-time professor a year or two ago. I remember that I had the heater on high, and the windows were just finishing defrosting; little rivulets of water were inching their way down the glass. As I negotiated the rush hour traffic I was thinking about the groups I had been running for the past several years, in particular the current one that I had been running with a co-leader for abuse survivors. Most of my groups didn’t usually seem to follow the format I had learned in social work school regarding the stages of group development. In fact, the women in many of my groups didn’t really get into any conflict at all until much later on in the group, and never really went through the “power and control” stage I had learned about. My current group of female abuse survivors was in its tenth meeting out of a total of sixteen. The members had been consistently supportive of each other and hadn’t given the workers a hard time at all; contrary to what the