Group Counseling Flashcards
Guidance group
Provide information often found in school settings
Counseling Group
Growth, development, removing blocks and barriers, and prevention.
Psychotherapy
Purpose of these groups is remediation, treatment, and personality reconstruction.
Psychoeducation
Acquiring information and skill building
Structured Group
Groups focused on central theme
Anger management, loss & grief
Self-help
these are support systems to help with psychological stress.
Usually not professionally led
Survivors of incest, parents who have lost a child
T-Group (training group)
Examine and improve interpersonal skills
Content vs process
Content: The subject under discussion
Process: how the interaction or discussion is occurring
Sections of a group
- Warm- up
- Action
- Closure
Group cohesion
Members find the group attractive and it provides them a feeling of belonging and inclusion
Common roles in group
Facilitative/building role: help group members feel part of group and contribute to positive functioning of group
Maintenance: encouraging the social and emotional bonding of the group members
Blocking: often attempts to hinder group formation and accomplishing goals
Corey, Corey, Corey core skills of group leader
- Active listening
- Reflecting
- Clarifying
- Summarizing
- Facilitating
- Empathizing
- Interpreting
- Questioning
- Linking
- Confronting
- Supporting
- Blocking
- Assessing
- Modeling
- Suggesting
- Initiating
- Evaluating
- Terminating
Size of adult group vs group with children 5 or 6
Optimus size of adult group 8
For kids 3 or 4 members
Group member’s rights
freedom from undue pressure, participation is voluntary (if it is), freedom of exit, and the right to the use of the group’s resources.
Yalom 4 stages of group
- Orientation
- Conflict
- Cohesion
- Termination
Corey, Corey, corey (2018) 5 stages of group
Stage 1: Pregroup
Stage 2: Initial
Stage 3: Transition
Stage 4: Working
Stage 5: Final
Yalom 11 curative factors in successful groups
- Altruism
- Universality
- Interpersonal learning
- Imparting information
- Developing socialization skills
- Imitative behavior
- Group cohesiveness
- Catharsis
- Corrective recapitulation of the primary family group
- Installation of hope
- Existential factors (one is alone and responsible)
Yaloms leadership functions
- Emotional stimulation
•confront, challenge, self disclosure, model - Caring
- Meaning attribution
•interpret, clarify, explain - Executive leadership function
•pacing, blocking, stopping
first to use term group psychotherapy
Jacob moreno
Psychodrama (Moreno)
Psychodrama emphasizes enacting conflicts or crisis situations
Three parts
1. Warm-up or precaution
2. Action
3. Integration
Family counseling
Identifying of the family problems, defining personal and family goals, teaching family members new behaviors.
Primary groups
the emphasis is on preventing problems and developing
healthy behaviors.
Guidance or Psychoeducational groups such as educational programs on drugs or alcohol
Secondary groups
Preventative and remedial elements to these groups
Also called counseling groups
Dealing with grief, adjusting to death, problem solving
Tertiary groups
Focus is to return members to Healthy full functioning
Counseling ortherapy
Example: counseling folks on PTSD
