Group Process Counseling - MUST KNOW Flashcards
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Group Process Counseling: Stages of a Group
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- Initial Stage
- Transition Stage
- Working Stage
- Final/Termination Stage
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Group Process Counseling: Initial Stage Group Characteristics
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- Early concerns
- Identifying and exploring common fears of group members
- Hidden agendas
- Addressing conflict early
- Self-focus versus focus on others
- Here-and-now versus there-and-then
- Trust versus mistrust
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Group Process Counseling: Initial Stage Leader Role
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- Creating trust among leader and member: attending and listening, understanding nonverbal behavior, empathy, genuineness, self-disclosure, respect, caring confrontation, and maintaining trust.
- Introduces norms and expectations of group
- Addresses member’s hesitations, resistance and fear. Examines anxiety
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Group Process Counseling: Initial Stage Members
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- Initial hesitation and cultural considerations
- Observing if the leader is trustworthy
- Anxiety of whether or not group will accept them or if it is safe to disclose their story
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Group Process Counseling: Initial Stage Transitions
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- Leader must focus on creating trust by active listening, genuineness, appropriate self-disclosure, and caring confrontation
- Techniques: icebreakers, pair sharing, discussing together as group.
- Leader may assign homework and journaling to assist members reach goals outside of group
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Group Process Counseling: Initial Stage Challenges
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- Trust vs mistrust
- Hidden agendas
- Uncertainty of norms
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Group Process Counseling: Transition Stage Group Characteristics
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- Still slightly resistant to trust
- Awkward silences
- Members are hesitant to share
- Member begin to show parts of themselves to group
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Group Process Counseling: Transition Stage Leader Role
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- Teaches and model to members how to respect and work with resistance by challenging and using gentle, caring confrontation
- Helps members stay in the here and now. Be present while other members are sharing
- Remain curious about members who display defensive behavior
- Leaves the decision to members to disclose and letting them know that they may do so without giving up privacy
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Group Process Counseling: Transition Stage Member Role
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- Resistant to the leader and their questions
- Tests and observes group by remaining silent
- Tries to gain a grasp of trustworthiness of group/leader
- Fears being vulnerable and disclosing too much
- Fear of being rejected by the group, misunderstood, and losing control of what they disclose
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Group Process Counseling: Transition Stage Transition
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- Ask members to discuss the group dynamic at the current moment
- Be honest about the group’s progression and status
- Teach members to caringly confront one another without labeling/describing emotions
- Continue to break off into smaller groups for comfort
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Group Process Counseling: Transition Stage Challenges
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- Members’ reluctance to share
- Members’ fear of looking foolish or being judged
- One or a few members monopolizing the conversation
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Group Process Counseling: Working Stage Group Characteristics
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- Group norms are solidified and developed
- Members become more willing to disclose and participate in group
- Group cohesion is high
- At this point, feedback is given with little defensiveness
- Not all members are at the same pace in the working stage but are moving forward in the process
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Group Process Counseling: Working Stage Leader Role
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- Leader discloses more
- There is a balance between support and challenge of the group
- Creates cohesion in a group by highlighting common themes that may unite group members
- Continues to model genuineness, caring confrontation, constructive and gentle feedback
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Group Process Counseling: Working Stage Member Role
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- Members begin to feel included and can explore feelings with the group
- Less focused on the leader for the direction of the session
- More ready to handle conflict within the group
- Members give honest feedback and communicate better
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Group Process Counseling: Working Stage Transition
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- Assign homework that translate what has been learned in group into practice outside of group
- Leader helps group review all they have learned so far
- Leader invites members to give and receive feedback
- Encouraging to practice behavioral changes beyond the end of group
