| Abstract: | From a particular social group work perspective the con. cept of crisis has a different meaning than from the way it has been formulatedand used in social casework. Crisis is perceived as a variation of ongoing experience and an existential model of worker intervention replaces the medical model. The central themes of the paper are: (1) all living is struggle and all struggle is crisis; (2) crises are to be confronted, not eliminated: (3) all crises are group phenomena: (4) existentially, crises give expression to people's "here and now" being; (5) medical or psychological categories do not accurately describe crises for social workers and should be translated into "here and now" behavioral terms. |
