Settlement house workers focused on teaching poor residents from diverse backgrounds to live moral lives and improve their circumstances by teaching the prevailing middle class values of “work, thrift, and abstinence as the keys to success.” groups also focused on social relationships, sports, music, painting, arts, discussion of current affairs, and social activism to improve living conditions. how has the focus of group work changed? what aspects of group work remain similar today?

They changed because now they have a total vision of what a group can improve, and understand that they should not focus only on one area so that practice and better possibilities can happen, they focus on the whole.

Similar aspects to those of before are the aspects that are still an agenda such as the discussion of morality and things that were still portrayed earlier.

world war i had a devastating effect on german-americans and their cultural heritage. up until that point   german-americans, as a group, had been spared much of the discrimination, abuse, rejection, collective mistrust experienced by so many different racial and ethnic groups in the history of the united states. indeed, over the years, they had been viewed as a well integrated and esteemed part of american society. all of this change with the outbreak of war.