Group section CPCE Flashcards
5 types of groups
Self help groups
Task groups
Psychoeducational groups
Counseling groups
Psychotherapy groups
Self help groups
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
Task groups
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
Psycho educational groups
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
Counseling groups
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
Psychotherapy groups
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
Therapeutic Factors
Learning group is a serious conquest
LEARNING GUIDANCE INSIGHT ACCEPTANCE AND COHESIVENESS SELD DISCLOSURE CATHARSIS
Learning through interpersonal action
Attempting to relate constructively and adaptively within the group
Through initiation or responding to other group members
Guidance
The leader or group member will give information or directly give advice to another member
Insight
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
Acceptance and cohesiveness
Acceptance is a personal feeling of belonging, warmth, friendliness and comfort
Cohesion is the group perception of togetherness
Self disclosure
The act of revealing person info about yourself to the group
Your reaction to others feedback
Catharsis
Emotionally releasing feelings that you are having as you experience them in group
Trust and develops emotional intimacy
Group Leader Functions
C Me Execute Emotion
Caring
Meaning making
Executive function
Emotional stimulation
GLF Caring
Inviting members to seek feedback as well as support, praise, and encouragement
Leaders express warmth, acceptance, and genuine concern for others
GLF Meaning Making
Conceptuializinv whats going on in group
Group leader provides interpretations of meaning making that is going on in the group
GLF executive function
Group leader focuses on the administrative tasks of running group
Setting up group Choosing members Limit setting Managing time Stopping/blocking Inviting/eliciting
GLF Emotional Stimulation
Leader emphasizes and facilitates the acknowledgment and sharing of emotion
Leader models emotional self disclosure and using actions to encourage members to disclose
Norms and roles
Norms: unwritten rules
Roles: patterns of behaviors in your home
Norms
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
Roles
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
Obstructing norms
Behaviors that are inconsistent with group goals
Criticizing Denying feelings Talking about things outside of group Avoiding responsibility Competitiveness
Helping norms
Behaviors that are consistent with group goals
Sharing Exploring emotions Giving feedback Interacting in the here and now Keeping things confidential
Group leader characteristics
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
Group counseling skills
Active listening Reflecting Clarifying Summarizing Facilitating Empathizing Interpreting Questioning Linking Confronting Supporting Blocking Assessing Modeling Suggesting Initiating Evaluating Terminating
Active listening
Gesturing, changes in voice and expression
GLS
Reflecting
Dependent on active listening
Conveying the essence of what a person has communicated so the person can see it
Clarifying
A skill that can be valuably applied during initial stages
Sorting out confusing and conflicting feelings to find the key issues
Summarizing
When things get bogged down or confusing can help decide where to go next
Facilitating
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
Empathizing
Discern verbal and non verbal messages
Interpreting
Offer possible explanations of behaviors and symptoms
Questioning
Can be overused
Shouldn’t interrogate
Appropriately timed what and how questions
Linking
Interactional focus
Stresses member to member interactions over leader to member
Confronting
It takes caring skill to confront group members when their behaviors are disrupting group
Supporting
Knowing when to step in when there is a crisis but not overly supporting
Blocking
Block activities of group members that are hurtful
Assessing
Identifying symptoms and figuring out the cause of behaviors
Advantages of co leadership
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
Mistakesof co leadership
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
Disadvantages of co leading
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
Oral model
Observe the behaviors that make you react
Report what you saw
Share your Assumptions and interpretations
Level and share the feelings
Theories of group
Psychodynamic
Experiencial
Cognitive behavioral
Postmodern
Interpersonal group theory
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
ASGW
Dedicated to the promotion of group work
Stages of group counseling
5 stages
- 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.
- 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
- Working/ developing stage: most of the work takes place here with the members productively work on themselves, provide feedback, and ideally meet their goals
- Termination: members deal with end of group process, effective leader leaves group members feeling accomplished that goals have met.
