Toward Validating the Therapeutic Benefits of Empowerment-Oriented Social Action Groups

This article speaks to the role of empowerment-oriented social action groups as one method to bridge micro and macro social work practice. Demonstrating therapeutic benefits of such groups may generate a greater acceptance among clinicians to integrate social action groups as part of their agency practice. The benefits of social action groups are specifically linked to self-efficacy theory and Yalom's curative factors of therapeutic groups.