| As a developing country in the primary stage of socialism,China will be in the current situation of an aging society for a long time.Under such a social background,with the passage of time,the elderly group will inevitably face the problem of widowhood,and this problem is more arduous in women’s groups due to the differences in life expectancy between men and women and the psychological characteristics of women.Compared with rural areas,the looseness of community buildings and the lack of community communication platform between cities lead to a series of derivative problems caused by the lack of timely guidance of the sadness of elderly women after widowhood.Nowadays,the intervention of relevant institutions and groups in elderly women groups is mostly material assistance,but this single supplement to material life is difficult to make these groups come out of the sadness of widowhood and face life again.As a professional group with certain professional knowledge and intervention ability,social workers can help the elderly widowed women in the city to alleviate their grief and emotional problems through intervention in the sadness of these groups,so as to better handle their emotions and behaviors and live a better life.Through group work,one of the professional methods of social work can start with sorting out the common problems of the members of the group,and systematically deal with the grief problem of the members of the team,so as to help the team members to adjust their emotion and behavior cognition,and let the life go on track again.This study was carried out in Z community of Handan.With the support of community residents’ committee,the semi-structured interview was used to identify the service objects.From the professional perspective of social work,use the basic skills of group work,combined with the four steps of grief counseling(accept the fact of losing a close relative,deal with the painful emotion,adjust and adapt to the life of losing a close relative and get back on track).By drawing on some outstanding experience and skills of domestic and foreign scholars,giving play to the fact that the members of the group accept bereavement,regain their enthusiasm and value in life,so as to meet the spiritual comfort needs of the elderly widowed women group.Through the intervention results of group work,it can also be seen that after the intervention of group work,the emotion,communication and life enthusiasm of elderly widowed women have changed to a great extent,but the intervention still has some limitations.In view of this,through the analysis of the limitations of the process of group intervention,this paper puts forward targeted solutions,so that social work can play a better role in the sad emotion relief of urban elderly widowed women,promote their better life development,truly realize the maximum relief of sad emotion,and promote the harmonious development of the current society. |