Group Work Flashcards
You are the leader of a counseling group which is meeting for the first session. You decide to institute an exercise where one group member will introduce another. The best technique would be:
a) pairing
b) modeling
c) drawing out
d) blocking
a) pairing
Group leadership is often classified by 3 major leadership styles:
a) the authoritarian or Theory X group leadership, democratic Theory Y group leadership, and laissez-faire or Theory Z group leadership.
b) the authoritarian or Theory Z, laissez-faire or Theory X group leadership, or democratic Theory XY.
c) the authoritarian or Theory XY leadership, laissez-faire or Theory ZYX leadership, or democratic Theory XYZ leadership.
d) the authoritarian or Theory XYZ group leadership, democratic or Theory Y group leadership, and laissez-faire or Theory ZX leadership.
a) the authoritarian or Theory X group leadership, democratic Theory Y group leadership, and laissez-faire or Theory Z group leadership.
You are working with mandated ex-offenders who do not want to be in your group and frankly are a bit out of control. As a group leader who practices REBT you will most likely be:
a) Theory Z leader.
b) Theory Y leader
c) Theory X leader
d) a laissez-faire leader
c) Theory X leader
Imagine that Carl Rogers is still alive today. You hire him to run a therapy group at your agency. The chances are his leadership style would best fit into the _____ category:
a) Y Theory
b) X Theory
c) Z Theory
d) laissez-faire
a) Y Theory
The term group therapy was coined in 1931 by:
a) Frank Parsons, the father of guidance
b) Jacob Moreno, the father of psychodrama
c) E. G. Williamson, associated with the Minnesota Viewpoint.
d) Fritz Perls, the father of gestalt therapy.
b) Jacob Moreno, the father of psychodrama
Which theorist’s work has been classified as a preface to the group movement?
a) Freud
b) Jung
c) Jessie B. Davis
d) Adler
d) Adler
Group norms:
a) exist only in encounter groups
b) exist only in career counseling groups
c) are not related to group cohesiveness
d) govern acceptable behavior and group rules
d) govern acceptable behavior and group rules
“Group content” refers to material discussed in a group setting. “Group process” refers to:
a) analysis of the unconscious.
b) analysis of the ego.
c) the T-group paradigm.
d) the manner in which discussions and transactions occur.
d) the manner in which discussions and transactions occur.
According to the risky shift phenomenon, a group decision will:
a) be less conservative than the average group member’s decision, prior to the group discussion.
b) be more conservative than the average group member’s decision, prior to the group discussion.
c) often be aggressive or illegal.
d) violate the group’s confidentiality norms.
a) be less conservative than the average group member’s decision, prior to the group discussion.
A counselor is conducting a screening for clients who wish to participate in a counseling group that will meet Tuesday nights at his private practice office. Which client would most likely be the poorest choice for a group member?
a) a shy librarian
b) an anxious salesman with no group experience
c) an extremely hostile and belligerent construction worker
d) a student with 16 hours toward her M. Ed in counseling
c) an extremely hostile and belligerent construction worker
Groups can be open or closed. The two differ in that:
a) open groups are limited to hospital settings
b) in an open group members can socialize between group meetings
c) closed groups always employ co-leaders
d) closed groups allow no new members after the group begins
d) closed groups allow no new members after the group begins
A group setting has a flexible seating arrangement in which clients are free to sit wherever they wish. In this setting it is likely that:
a) an African american clients and a Caucasian leader would sit close together
b) a Hispanic client and an African american leader would sit close together
c) an Asian american client and an African american leader would sit close together
d) an Asian american leader and an Asian american client would sit close together
d) an Asian american leader and an Asian american client would sit close together
A group setting has a flexible seating arrangement in which clients are free to sit wherever they wish. In this setting it is likely that:
a) a male leader in a designer suit and a female client in cutoff jeans will sit close together
b) a Latino male leader in a designer suit and an Asian male client in another brand of designer suit will sit close together
c) a Caucasian female leader in a designer outfit and a Caucasian male client in a pair of old jeans and an undershirt will sit close together
d) a male leader in a designer suit and a female client in a jogging suit and old tennis shoes with holes in them will sit close together
b) a Latino male leader in a designer suit and an Asian male client in another brand of designer suit will sit close together
Groups promote the concept of universality, which suggests that:
a) we are unique and so are our problems
b) there is a universal way to solve nearly any difficulty
c) a and b
d) we are not the only ones in the world with a given problem
d) we are not the only ones in the world with a given problem
When comparing the autocratic, democratic, and laissez-faire styles:
a) the autocratic is the most desirable
b) the laissez faire is the most desirable
c) the democratic is the most desirable
d) there is no discernible difference in effectiveness
c) the democratic is the most desirable
