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