Group Work

Question 1

Styles of group leadership

Answer 1

1. Autocratic/authoritarian
2. Democratic/participative (most desirable)
3. Laissez faire (With cohesive group-best results)

Question 2

Tuckman’s Progression of Group Therapy

Answer 2

1. Forming
   -Structuring, avoid conflicts with one another to gain acceptance, look to group leader for direction and guidance
2. Storming
   -interpersonal conflicts begin to emerge
   -leadership, power, and structural issues
3. Norming
   -group become a collaborative unit, sense of cohesiveness is established, members are flexible, responsibility is shared, members willing to adapt
4. Performing
   -true interdependence, highly productive
5. Adjourning
   -change and transition

Question 3

Universality

Answer 3

The recognition of shared feelings and similar experiences within a group that validates experiences, removes isolation, and increases a sense of self and esteem.

Question 4

Yalom’s curative factor

Answer 4

-Universality
-Instillation of hope
-interpersonal learning (occurs when a person tries out new behaviors in group)
-group cohesiveness

Question 5

Risky shift phenomenon

Answer 5

A group decision will be less conservative than a decision made by an individual

Question 6

Yalom 4 Leader Functions

Answer 6

1. Emotional stimulation
   (counselor encourages healthy expression of
   emotion)
2. Caring
   (warmth, acceptance, genuineness, concern)
3. Meaning attribution
   (group leader provides a cognitive perspective to group member’s experiences)
4. Executive function

Question 7

Types of groups

Answer 7

primary= preventative and attempt to ward off problems

secondary= a difficulty or disturbance is present

tertiary= more likely to deal with severe pathology

Question 8

T-groups

Answer 8

aka training groups

Question 9

most important trait for group members

Answer 9

the ability to TRUST

Question 10

gatekeeper

Answer 10

-may secretly wish that they were running the group

-most likely to mention another group member is not participating and urge them to

Question 11

isolate

Answer 11

-ignored by other members

-feels afraid to reach out/do reach out and are rejected

-often referred to as the “silent one”

Question 12

role conflict

Answer 12

a situation in which there is a discrepancy between the way a member is expected to behave and the way they actually behave

Question 13

Yalom (existential) 4 Group Stages

Answer 13

1. orientation
   2.conflict
2. cohesion
3. termination

Question 14

sociogram

Answer 14

the study of measuring person-to-person relationships regarding what members in a group think or feel

Question 15

horizontal interventions

Answer 15

strategies that approach the group as a whole