Group Counseling Flashcards
Universality
Recognition he or she is not alone. Helps eliminate the isolation and demoralization the individual is feeling.
Advantages of group counseling
- Sense of safety because there are other people the counselor can focus on.
- Vicarious and direct learning experience.
- In a group, an individual is expected to be concerned about other members.
- Cost-efficient.
Interactions with others in a safe environment can…
- Promote the learning of healthy interpersonal relationships
- Allow the practice of new behavior before trying it in the real world.
- Permit honest feedback that guides the individual.
Group orientation should include…
- group ground rules
- statements about the purpose of the group
- Statements about expectations of group members and leaders.
Yalom 12 factors that help group members change (1-4)
- instillation of hope
- universality
- imparting information
- altruism
Yalom 12 factors that help group members change (5-8)
- Corrective recapitulation
- Socializing techniques
- Imitative behavior
- interpersonal learning
Yalom 12 factors that help group members change (9-12)
- Notice new interpersonal skills
- Group cohesiveness
- Catharsis
- Existential factors (self-responsibility)
Stages of group development: initial stage
Each member is concerned about acceptance, identity, power, and intimacy.
Stages of group development: transition stage
Focus shifts to dominance, control, and power.
Stages of group development: working stage
The group has emerged from its conflicts with a sense of oneness and cohesiveness.
Stages of group development: final stage
Termination, important force in the process of change because it prepares the members for post-group independence, emphasizing process, not event.
Group process
The continuing development of the individual member and the group as a whole which involves many changes.
3 processes an individual must go through in order to allow a group to be helpful.
- Compliance
- Identification
- Internalization
The 4 truths a leader helps group members accept
- Only I can change the world I have created for myself.
- There is no danger in change.
- To attain what I really want, I must change.
- I can change, I am powerful.
Four steps that promote change
- Here is what your behavior is like.
- Here is how your behavior makes others feel.
- Here is how your behavior influences the opinion others have of you.
- Here is how your behavior influences your opinion of yourself.
Meta communication
The how and why of communication