Group

Question 1

Transactional Analysis Group

Answer 1

Goal: awareness, making new decisions, alter course of life
Focus: insight/action and rational/affect oriented

Question 2

Tertiary groups

Answer 2

• focus is to return members to healthy, full functioning
• may involve personality change or rehabilitation
• counseling or therapy groups

Question 3

secondary groups

Answer 3

preventative and remedial elements in these groups

• focus may be on reducing the length or severity of a problem
• counseling groups

Question 4

primary groups

Answer 4

• emphasis is on preventing problems and developing healthy behaviors
• guidance or psychoeducational groups
• educational programs

Question 5

psychodrama

Answer 5

• director/producer
• protagonist
• auxiliary ego
• occurs on a stage
• warm up
• action
• integration

Question 6

Jacob Moreno

Answer 6

• theater of spontaneity (vienna 1921)
• psychodrama emphasizes enacting conflicts or crisis situations in the present
• focus on the here and now
• reorganize individuals’ perceptions
• allows for insight, catharsis and reality testing

Question 7

Michael Waldo

Answer 7

different levels of leadership functions were needed depending on the needs of the group

Question 8

Group Leader Functions

Answer 8

• emotional stimulation: confrontation, challenge, self-disclosure, modeling
• caring: warmth, acceptance, genuineness, concern
• meaning attribution: interprets, clarifies, and explains
• executive leadership functions: structuring, suggesting limits and providing direction

Question 9

Corey’s 6 Stages

Answer 9

1) forming-regroup activities
- planning, leader prep, recruiting, screening, selecting
2) orientation and exploration
- orientation, structuring of group process, inclusion, identity, cohesion and trust
3) transition-dealing with resistance
- anxiety, conflict, resistance, intellectualization, questioning, challenging leader
4) working-cohesion and productivity
- cohesion, effective working, self-exploration, here and now, using the group’s resources
5) consolidation and termination
- sadness, anxiety, unfinished business, feedback, preparing for the outside world and going forward
6) post group activities
- evaluation of outcomes, follow-up, referrals

Question 10

B. Tuchman’s 5 stages of a group

Answer 10

• forming
• storming
• norming
• performing
• mourning

Question 11

leadership styles:
autocratic
democratic
laissez faire

Answer 11

• best for quick decision making, but may generate resentment
• doesn’t always generate the most production
• if the group is committed to a goal this is the most effective

Question 12

maintenance role

Answer 12

• contributes to the bonding of the group

- by encouraging the social and emotional bonding of the group members

Question 13

facilitative/building role

Answer 13

• help members feel a part of the group

- contribute to the positive and constructive functioning of the group