Group Roles Flashcards
1
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active leader
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- needs action, authority
- important in the first stage, gives the first impetus to the group
2
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guiding leader
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- able to guide the group’s activity
- organises the activity of the active leader
- receptive to the group’s goal
- responds from meta-level
3
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emotional leader
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- accurately senses mood of the group
- provides for good atmosphere
- irreplaceable when there are tension and conflicts with the group, points out feelings evaded by the members
- important in crisis
4
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grey eminence
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- strives to affect the group by means of influencing one of the leaders (leader in the background)
5
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leader supporter
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- explicitly supports the leader
- remains autonomous
6
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good student
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- mainly tries to read the leader’s intentions
- supports the leaders, appeals to the group for the leader
- very dependent
- follows the main stream
7
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observer
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- hardly active in responses and actions
- focused on observing other’s behaviour
8
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outsider
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- no connection with the group
9
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expert
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- specialist
10
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wise man/woman
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- experienced group member
11
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scapegoat
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- person upon whom the members release their negative emotions
- can turn out therapeutic, accurate measure of important issues for the group
- without scapegoat often abstain from undertaking more confrontational work
12
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nurse
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- protects others
- protects group from destroying someone (often defends scapegoat)
13
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kamikaze
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- opens himself up too soon/too much
- talks a lot about himself
- when group members are not ready to solve the problem can be destructive to him
- not good for counselling; might provoke in other groups to open up
14
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rebel
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- active especially in conflicts (rebellions)
- attacks leader, group standards
- sometimes overtakes rolle of leader
15
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joker
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- releases tension by humour and laughing
- handy in first stage
- sometimes unable to adjust his behaviour to more serious matters; then loses his position
