An Introduction to Groupwork

Question 1

These are belief s that delineate preferences about how one ought to behave. They refer to a goal that is worth attaining (Corey et al., 2019).

Answer 1

Values

Question 2

Goal-directed activity with small treatment and task groups aimed at meeting socio-emotional needs and accomplishing tasks. This activity is directed to individual members of a group and to the group as a whole within a system of service delivery and a larger community and societal environment.

Answer 2

Group work

Question 3

This implies the ability of members to identify themselves as members, to engage in interaction, and to exchange thoughts and feelings among themselves through verbal, nonverbal, and written communication processes.

Answer 3

Small group

Question 4

These are those that come together through some outside influence or intervention.

Answer 4

Formed groups

Question 5

These come together spontaneously based on naturally occurring events, interpersonal attraction, or the mutually perceived needs of members.

Answer 5

Natural groups

Question 6

This is the general aims of a group.

Answer 6

Purpose

Question 7

This is used to signify a group whose major purpose is to meet members’ socio-emotional needs.

Answer 7

Treatment group

Question 8

This is used to signify any group in which the overriding purpose is to accomplish a goal that is neither intrinsically nor immediately linked to the needs of the members of the group.

Answer 8

Task group

Question 9

This principle states those who provide help derive therapeutic benefit themselves.

Answer 9

Helper-therapy principle

Question 10

An advantage of group treatment which states that vicarious identification with and understanding of members’ situations by peers and the worker

Answer 10

Empathy from multiple sources

Question 11

An advantage of group treatment which is defined as “multiple points of view shared by group members.”

Answer 11

Feedback

Question 12

An advantage of group treatment defined as “providing help and mutual support to other group members, therapeutic for the member who shares experiences and knowledge.”

Answer 12

Helper-therapy

Question 13

An advantage of group treatment defined as “instillation of hope by other group members who have coped effectively with similar situations.”

Answer 13

Hope

Question 14

An advantage of group treatment defined as “members both giving and receiving help.”

Answer 14

Mutual aid

Question 15

An advantage of group treatment defined as “removal of stigma from problems seen as socially unacceptable by the larger society.”

Answer 15

Normalization

Question 16

An advantage of group treatment defined as “opportunities to try out new behaviors in the safe environment of the group.”

Answer 16

Practice of new behaviors

Question 17

An advantage of group treatment defined as “sharing ways of being and getting feednack about whether they are realistic and socially acceptable.”

Answer 17

Reality testing

Question 18

An advantage of group treatment defined as “working through previously unsatisfactory relationships with family members, peers, and friends with the help of group members.”

Answer 18

Recapitulation

Question 19

An advantage of group treatment defined as “group members serving as surrogate family and synbolically representing family members.”

Answer 19

Recreation of the family of origin