Chapter 10: Therapeutic group Flashcards
Group
3 or more people with related goals
Group By Chance
Born into the group
Group By Choice
Voluntary affiliation
Group By Circumstance
The result of life-cycle events over which an individual may or may not have control
8 Group Functions
Socialization Support Task Completion Camaraderie Informational Normative Empowerment Governance
Socialization
The teaching of social norms occurs through groups.
Support
Fellow members are available in time of need
Task Completion
Groups can assist in endeavors that are beyond the capacity of a single individual
Camaraderie
Individuals receive joy and pleasure from interactions with significant others
Informational
Learning takes place when group members share their knowledge with the others in the group
Normative
Different groups enforce established norms in various ways.
Empowerment
Groups have power that individuals alone do not.
Governance
Large organizations often have leadership that is provided by groups rather than by a single individual
Task Groups
The function of this group is to solve problems, make decisions, and achieve a specific outcome.
Often a deadline is placed on completion of the task, and such importance is placed on a satisfactory outcome that conflict in the group may be smoothed over or ignored in order to focus on the priority at hand.
Teaching Groups
In these groups knowledge and information are conveyed to a number of individuals.
These groups usually have a set time frame or a set number of meetings. Members learn from each other as well as from the designated instructor. The objective is verbalization or demonstration by the learner of the material presented by the end of the designated period.
Supportive/Therapeutic Groups
These groups educate people to deal effectively with emotional stress in their lives.
Teaching participants effective ways of dealing with emotional stress arising from situational or developmental crises.
Group Therapy
Purposes: To intervene in mentally disordered behavior, thinking, and feeling
Advantages: Cost-effective; Members benefit by hearing others, they explore their styles of communication, they learn multiple problem-solving strategies, gain a reference group
Disadvantages: Lack of Privacy; Difficulty with self-exposure
Therapeutic groups
based less on theory. Focus is on group relations, interactions between group members, and the consideration of a selected issue.
Group Process
The way in which group members interact with each other.
Group Content
The topic or issue being discussed within the group
Self-Help Groups
Individuals share a common problem.
Serve to reduce further emotional distress.
Members provide mutual support.
Run by members, and leadership often rotates from member to member
Group Seating
No barriers between members, change seats each meeting
Group Size
7 or 10 members are preferred.
11 Curative Factors
- The Instillation of Hope.
- Universality.
- The Imparting of Information.
- Altruism.
- The Corrective Recapitulation of the Primary Family Group.
- The Development of Socializing Techniques.
- Imitative Behavior.
- Interpersonal Learning.
- Group Cohesiveness.
- Catharsis.
- Existential Factors.
The Instillation of Hope.
Increasing hopefulness of group members
Universality.
Realization that others experience similar thoughts, feelings, and problems
The Imparting of Information.
Receiving didactic information and advice
Altruism.
Experience of sharing part of oneself to help another
The Corrective Recapitulation of the Primary Family Group.
Ability of members to alter learning experience previously obtained from primary family group in their families
The Development of Socializing Techniques.
Opportunity to increase awareness of social interactions and develop social skills
Imitative Behavior.
Opportunities to increase skills by imitating behaviors of others in group
Interpersonal Learning.
Ability to engage in wider range of interpersonal exchanges, thereby increasing each member’s understanding of responsibility and complexity of interpersonal relationships and decreasing members’ interpersonal distortions