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Group section CPCE Flashcards

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5 types of groups

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Self help groups

Task groups

Psychoeducational groups

Counseling groups

Psychotherapy groups

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Self help groups

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Function: education, affirmation, and enhancement of existing strengths of the group members

No leader or nay leader

Limited self disclosure

Addiction recovery, AA, twelve step groups

Open membership with group changing a lot

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Task groups

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Function: to foster accomplishing identified work goals

May or may not have a professionally trained leader

Businesses use these groups to address problems with getting work done

Group dynamic principals, poor communication sexual harassment etc

Task forces, committees, discussion groups

Self disclosure is variable

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Psycho educational groups

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Function: to educate well functioning group members who want to acquire information and skills in an area of living

Group dynamics are utilized to assist in learning and highlight concepts

SCHOOLS AN DCOMMUNITY

Trained professional

Some self disclosure but less than psychotherapy and counseling

Parenting and anger management groups

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Counseling groups

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Function: preventative and educational purposes, here and now time framework, interactive feedback

MUST BE PROFESSIONALLY TRAIEND TO LEAD

Membership is closed and have longer groups

Focus is interpersonal growth

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Psychotherapy groups

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Function: aim at remediation of in dept psychological problem, focuses on past influences of present difficulties

MUST BE PROFESSIONAL TRAINED TO LEAD, treatment of mental disorders

Membership closed and longer groups

Focus on personality reconstruction

Focus of CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS MOTIVATION, may meet for many years

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Therapeutic Factors

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Learning group is a serious conquest

LEARNING 
GUIDANCE
INSIGHT
ACCEPTANCE AND COHESIVENESS
SELD DISCLOSURE
CATHARSIS
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Learning through interpersonal action

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Attempting to relate constructively and adaptively within the group

Through initiation or responding to other group members

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Guidance

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The leader or group member will give information or directly give advice to another member

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Insight

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Learning about yourself through feedback and personal reflection

How you come across, the nature of a problem as it comes up with group, why you behave the way you do

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Acceptance and cohesiveness

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Acceptance is a personal feeling of belonging, warmth, friendliness and comfort

Cohesion is the group perception of togetherness

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Self disclosure

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The act of revealing person info about yourself to the group

Your reaction to others feedback

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Catharsis

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Emotionally releasing feelings that you are having as you experience them in group

Trust and develops emotional intimacy

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Group Leader Functions

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C Me Execute Emotion

Caring
Meaning making
Executive function
Emotional stimulation

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GLF Caring

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Inviting members to seek feedback as well as support, praise, and encouragement

Leaders express warmth, acceptance, and genuine concern for others

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GLF Meaning Making

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Conceptuializinv whats going on in group

Group leader provides interpretations of meaning making that is going on in the group

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GLF executive function

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Group leader focuses on the administrative tasks of running group

Setting up group
Choosing members
Limit setting
Managing time
Stopping/blocking
Inviting/eliciting
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GLF Emotional Stimulation

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Leader emphasizes and facilitates the acknowledgment and sharing of emotion

Leader models emotional self disclosure and using actions to encourage members to disclose

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Norms and roles

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Norms: unwritten rules

Roles: patterns of behaviors in your home

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Norms

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Describe consistent patters of behaviors by all group members (unwritten rules)

Ex: when one person feels back we change the subject

Norm is its not okay for someone to feel bad

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Roles

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Describe consistent patterns of behaviors performed by individual group members

Ex: one specific group member is needed to crack a joke when there’s tension

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Obstructing norms

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Behaviors that are inconsistent with group goals

Criticizing
Denying feelings
Talking about things outside of group
Avoiding responsibility
Competitiveness
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Helping norms

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Behaviors that are consistent with group goals

Sharing
Exploring emotions
Giving feedback
Interacting in the here and now
Keeping things confidential
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Group leader characteristics

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Courage
Modeling
Presence
Goodwill, genuineness and care
Belief in the group process
Openness
Non defensiveness with criticism
Awareness of culture
Identifying with group members pain
Personal power
Commitment to self care
Inventiveness 
Personal dedication
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Group counseling skills

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Active listening
Reflecting
Clarifying
Summarizing
Facilitating
Empathizing
Interpreting
Questioning
Linking
Confronting
Supporting
Blocking
Assessing 
Modeling
Suggesting
Initiating
Evaluating
Terminating
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Active listening

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Gesturing, changes in voice and expression

GLS

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Reflecting

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Dependent on active listening

Conveying the essence of what a person has communicated so the person can see it

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Clarifying

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A skill that can be valuably applied during initial stages

Sorting out confusing and conflicting feelings to find the key issues

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Summarizing

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When things get bogged down or confusing can help decide where to go next

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Facilitating

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Help members to openly express their fear and expectations

Actively working to create a climate of safety and acceptance so there will be trust

Encourage and support
Involve all group members

Encourage open conflict

Help overcome communication barriers

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Empathizing

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Discern verbal and non verbal messages

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Interpreting

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Offer possible explanations of behaviors and symptoms

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Questioning

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Can be overused

Shouldn’t interrogate

Appropriately timed what and how questions

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Linking

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Interactional focus

Stresses member to member interactions over leader to member

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Confronting

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It takes caring skill to confront group members when their behaviors are disrupting group

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Supporting

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Knowing when to step in when there is a crisis but not overly supporting

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Blocking

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Block activities of group members that are hurtful

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Assessing

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Identifying symptoms and figuring out the cause of behaviors

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Advantages of co leadership

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Decreases chances of burnout

Less overwhelming to respond to the needs of the group

If one leader is gone group still meets

Two perspectives and strengths

Can help manage countertransference

Can help process members reaching to other leader

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Mistakesof co leadership

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Not sitting across from each other

Interacting only with co leader

Having a goal but not communicating with co leader

Taking turns leading

Being right at the expense of co leader

Dominating

Being too quiet

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Disadvantages of co leading

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Problems if leaders don’t meet often enough, lack of synchronization

Competition and rivalry betweeen leaders

Co leaders don’t have tryst or respect for each other

One leader sides with members over other leader

Co leaders are intimate with each other, their own issues can come up

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Oral model

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Observe the behaviors that make you react

Report what you saw

Share your Assumptions and interpretations

Level and share the feelings

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Theories of group

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Psychodynamic

Experiencial

Cognitive behavioral

Postmodern

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Interpersonal group theory

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Group interactions mirror outside interactions

Life satisfaction and difficulties manifest in interpersonal relationships

Consensual validation (explosive to perceptions and feedback)

Members are open, interpersonal distortions emerge in the here and now

Interpersonal distortions corrected through corrective emotional experiences and consensual validation

ROLE OF LEADER: make process observations, activate here and now, illuminate interpersonal distortions

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ASGW

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Dedicated to the promotion of group work

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Stages of group counseling

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5 stages

  1. Orientation:members acclimated to process, communicate through group leader. In this stage the group leader takes an active role in forming group culture.

2Power/control stage: certain members exert power or control by opening up first. Leader makes sure that not just one member takes control over the group.

  1. Intimacy stage: by this point hopefully power or control issues are resolved and there is trust between members leading to more openness and feedback. More cohesive
  2. Working/ developing stage: most of the work takes place here with the members productively work on themselves, provide feedback, and ideally meet their goals
  3. Termination: members deal with end of group process, effective leader leaves group members feeling accomplished that goals have met.

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