Group Work And Self-confidence Of Children From Low-paid Family In Cities

For a long time, poverty is one of the focuses of global attention, for China is in rapid urbanization, the gap between rich and poor is widening in city. There is a large number of low-income families existed, whose children are under the threat of poverty. The children of low-income families face many problems, such as material deprivation, malnutrition, level of education is low, and the lack of medical care, their mental health is also facing some problems-prone to low self-esteem, depression, rebellious and other negative emotions, lack of self-confidence is particularly evident. Children from low-income families because of the lack of self-confidence in learning life often manifests themselves not active, timidity in interpersonal interaction, and even behavior problems. If they do not timely be guided, this will be detrimental to the development of their personality and mental health. In recent years, more and more professional social work for children across the country, the different types of children’s services social work practice are achieved certain results. In order to enhance self-confidence for children from low-income families, the use of group work with group activities in the form of diversity is one of effective solutions from theory to practice.In order to enhance the self-confidence of children of low-income urban families, from the perspective of social work, this paper selects group work method, and makes the enhancement of self-confidence of the low-income families children for example; the design of group activities, preparation, implementation, and assessment process is recorded and analyzed in detail. By analyzing the results, explore the feasibility of group work involved in enhancing self-confidence of the children from urban low-income families, and from the perspective of social work to give effective suggestions for the problem.This paper is based on "mirror" theory, symbolic interaction theory, social learning theory and group dynamics, integrated use of the experimental method, literature research, interviews and questionnaires Through the literature review found that among existing research, most scholars exclude urban low-income children, which makes the study lack of universality and comprehensiveness. On this basis the paper makes up for the deficiency. The process of group work intervention:in the early stages of intervention the use of interviews to gather first-hand information of the client’s needs and assessment of community environment; According to the requirements of related theory and the client’s needs, designed five group activities about enhancement of self-confidence, and drawing on the theory of group dynamics to make process evaluation; After the activities, effectiveness evaluation uses the questionnaire survey method, which was conducted for parents and children respectively, to get evaluation results.In this paper, according to the results of the activities and related information, conclusions are, that low-income family children’s development of self-confidence needs intervention of the group work; that the intervention of the group work helps to enhance the self-confidence of low-income children. From the perspective of social work, the paper gives three proposals:to strengthen the effective involvement of the group work method; take full advantage of the case work, community work methods; strengthen social work’s influence on children’s growing environment and social policy..