Client Centered Groups Flashcards
Potential Benefits of Groups
- Provide a context of social support
- Enhance communication and self-expression
- Provide an atmosphere of nonjudgmental acceptance
- Allow expression of the unique cultural values of each member
- Offer multiple opportunities to share learning and application of therapeutic strategies
Potential Benefits of Groups Part Two
- Impart information in a cost-effective way
- Facilitate client participation
- Promote all levels of client group interaction skill
- Provide context for problem-solving relationships with others
Mosey’s Developmental Group Levels
- Parallel: Minimalsharingoftask,leaderemotionally supports and structures task
- Project: Short term sharable task; leader helps with task selection and cooperation
- Egocentric cooperative: Joint interaction with self- interest; leader role model; leader assumes missing roles and acts as resource person
- Cooperative: Members able to assume social-emotional roles and mutual need satisfaction; leader acts as consultant
- Mature: Members able to balance roles to support and maintain task without supervision; leadership is shared; therapist is peer
Tuckman’s Stages of Group Development
- Forming: uncertainty of role in group, purpose, and procedures of group
- Storming: Conflict and rebellion in group as members resist group influence
- Norming: Group discovers ways to work together, set norms to enable cohesiveness
- Performing: Group is flexible in ways of working together to achieve aims
Characteristics of Intervention Groups
- Group context and climate
- Boundaries/membership
- Roles
- Group cohesiveness
- Group norms
- Group goals
Types of Occupational Therapy Intervention Groups
- Psychoeducational
- Social Skills
- Activities of Daily Living (ADL)
- Reminiscence
- Leisure
- Sensorimotor
- Energy Conservation
Roles in Intervention Group Task Roles
- Initiator/contributor
- Information seeker/giver
- Opinion seeker/giver
- Elaborator
- Coordinator
- Orienter
- Evaluator/critic
- Energizer
- Procedural technician
Roles in Intervention Group Social-Emotional Roles
- Encourager
- Harmonizer
- Compromiser
- Gatekeeper
- Standard setter
- Group observer
- Follower
3 Stages of Therapeutic Communication for Individuals and Groups Stage 1
3 Stages of Therapeutic Communication for Individuals and Groups Stage 2
3 Stages of Therapeutic Communication for Individuals and Groups Stage 3
Managing Disruptive Behavior in Groups
Therapeutic Use of Self in OT Group Leadership
• Intentional Relationship Model
– Advocating
– Collaborating
– Empathizing
– Encouraging
– Instructing
– Problem solving
Seven-Step Format of a Client- Centered Group
- • Introduction
- • Activity
- • Sharing
- • Processing
- • Generalizing
- • Application
- • Summary
Theories Commonly Used in the Development of Groups
- • Cognitive Disabilities
- • Cognitive Behavioral
- • Psychodynamic
- • Model of Human Occupation (MOHO)
- • Developmental
- • Sensorimotor
