Group Work Study On Emotional Support For The Elderly Who Lost Their Only Child

In recent years,China’s aging population structure,the more serious,the loss of the old man alone is a special group,they practice the one-child policy,when they were young age unfortunately lost the only children,in the social life encountered many problems and difficulties,physical and mental suffering from severe trauma,urgently need the social from all walks of life care and help.Therefore,this paper focuses on the emotional needs of the elderly with only child loss,takes the elderly with only child loss in M community as the research object,takes the theory of social support theory,Mirror theory and group motivation theory as the theoretical basis,applies the professional method of group work to intervene,and uses the semi-structured interview and participatory observation method to analyze the emotional support of the members after intervention.Due to the low sense of self-identity,insufficient peer support and low social initiative,the elderly who lost their only child in M community are lack of emotional support.Therefore,this study links various resources such as community elderly care service stations and community volunteers,and develops corresponding group plans and activities according to the actual needs of the service objects.Intervention is carried out through seven group activities.In the practical process,social workers comprehensively use professional methods and skills to fully respond to the needs of the clients,encourage group members to re-understand themselves,actively socialize,unite and help each other,and improve their self-worth,social initiative and emotional support.In the later stage of the group,the satisfaction survey and return visit of the group members found that the group members had a high degree of satisfaction and recognition of the effectiveness of the emotional support group.Finally,this paper summarized and reflected on the practice of group intervention of emotional support for the elderly who lost their only child.It was found that group work had a positive effect on improving the emotional support of the elderly who lost their only child,and suggestions were put forward according to the shortcomings,hoping to provide certain reference for the practical research of group work intervention for the elderly who lost their only child in the future.