Quiz 3 Flashcards
interpretation
- four-step intervention model
- possible explanations;
Problem
- four-step intervention model
- identify the issues in the group
intervention
- four-step intervention model
- consider the identified problem and proposed theory and the desired outcome
Outcome and Reassessment
- four-step intervention model
- what was the effect of the intervention? any changes from the intervention process?
Initiator-Contributor
- Group Task
- This person suggests new ideas or goals or new ways to accomplish specific tasks or solve problems.
Information Seeker
- Group Task
- This person is most concerned with establishing the facts that surround or affect the tasks and goals of the group. He or she does this by asking for clarification and seeking out authoritative resources for information related to the task.
Opinion Seeker
- Group Task
- This person is less concerned with the facts and more concerned with what people think—the general values of the group related to the task.
Coordinator
- Group Task
- The person taking on this role will try to coordinate the various subtasks, pull together groups of members working on different pieces of the task, and work to clarify the relationship between the ideas and suggestions made by others.
Information Giver:
- Group Task
- The person who takes on this role offers information or opinions related to the task of the group.
Opinion Giver:
- Group Task
- This person provides statements related to his or her beliefs about a particular task or the group process as a whole.
Elaborator:
- Group Task
- The person taking on this role will consider suggestions and ideas, and then will provide specific examples, develop a rationale for that suggestion, or explain why it won’t work for the task at hand.
Orienteer:
- Group Task
- This person periodically evaluates and summarizes the progress of the group related to its defined goal.
Energizer:
- Group Task
- The person taking on this role works to stimulate the group to a “better” activity. They also encourage decision making and forward movement.
Evaluator-Critic:
- Group Task
- This person tends to look at the expectations or standards of the group and compare current progress with that expectation.
Procedural Technician:
- Group Task
- This person takes care of details, small tasks that can be overlooked, to keep the group moving forward in its goal.
Recorder:
- Group Task
- This person keeps a record of the group’s progress in the form of written notation, minutes for meetings, or simply recalling verbally past decisions and suggestions.
Encourager:
- Group Building and Maintenance
- This person agrees with, praises, and supports the suggestions, opinions, beliefs, and overall contributions of other group members.
Compromiser:
- Group Building and Maintenance
- This person gives up some component of his or her idea or suggestion to allow for coordination with other group members’ ideas or suggestions.
Harmonizer:
- Group Building and Maintenance
- This person attempts to decrease tension in the group by serving as a mediator, helping members in conflict negotiate an acceptable solution.
Gatekeeper:
- Group Building and Maintenance
- This person works to make sure there is a flow of communication by encouraging and facilitating participation between members.
Standard Setter:
- Group Building and Maintenance
- The person who takes on this role works to set the standards for what the group will achieve, then applies norms while measuring the groups ability to meet those standards.
Group Observer or Commentator:
- Group Building and Maintenance
- This person keeps a mental or written record of the group process and provides comments related to the group’s progress, history, or situations within the group.
Follower:
- Group Building and Maintenance
- This person simply goes along with the group decisions and process. He or she listens to others during discussions and does what is asked.
Aggressor:
- Individual
- This person tends to verbally attack others through disapproval of their statements, values, and beliefs. He or she might also attack the group as a whole and any issues it might be working on. This person gains much power, primarily through fear, by making it unsafe for others to speak or participate in a meaningful way.
Dominator or monopolist:
- Individual
- This person tends to fill large amounts of the group’s time, often asserting authority over individual members or the group as a whole, or attempting to establish superiority in some way. Like the aggressor, the dominator can work to lower the status of other members, making participation uncomfortable.
Blocker:
- Individual
- This person blocks any forward movement through negativity, resistance, and oppositional behavior. Often the blocker is doing this to mitigate discomfort related to self-disclosure or some action the group is taking.
Self-Confessor:
- Individual
- This person uses the group as an audience and often has a goal to reveal personal information intended to shock or affect the group in some way. It is not unusual for the self-confessor to wait until there are only a few minutes of group time left to reveal this information, affecting the closure of the group session.
Recognition Seeker:
- Individual
- This person’s primary goal is to draw attention to himself or herself. This can be done any number of ways (e.g., telling gossip, engaging his or her neighbor in private conversation, focusing and fidgeting with something, or “one-upping” others in the group when they share information).
Playboy:
- Individual
- This person lacks involvement in the group process and instead looks to engage others in activities that are often playful or flirtatious. Although rarely negative, this person causes the group to remain superficial and unable to make progress on goals.
Help-Seeker:
- Individual
- This person uses self-deprecation and expressions of insecurity to get members of the group to feel sympathy for him or her. He or she then often rejects the help provided by the group because he or she is convinced it won’t help. This person is also referred to as the help-rejecting complainer.
Special Interest Pleader:
- Individual
- This person brings individual special interests to the group and attempts to convince others of the value and need to focus on those interests, rather than on the issues of the group
Verbal communication
- written and spoken words.
- Plain-Language used for 6th grader
- Characteristics of the audience
- message
- tone
- volume
- speech
Non-Verbal Communication
- eye contact
- facial expression
- body language
Active listening
- listening to the client that the practitioner becomes aware of the clients goals and concerns
- allow time to express needs and concerns
- asking questions to clarify
- avoid trying to finish the other person’s statements
- avoid thinking ahead
Group
-individuals who share a common purpose that can be attained only by group members interacting and working together
activity groups
- Group models
- small
- members are engaged in a common activity or task that is directed toward learning and maintaining occupational performance
- classified into 6 types of groups: evaluation, task-oriented, developmental, thematic, topical, and instrumental groups
psychoanalytic/intrapsychic group
- Group models
- increasing insight into the self and increasing understanding of personal behavior
- traditional group therapy sessions
- goal is to talk about personal issues and sharing with the group
- Therapeutic media
social systems
- Group models
- learning about group dynamics
- team-building groups
- long-term settings
- learn how to work together productively to achieve a group goal
- learn to trust others and communicate effectively
growth group
- Group models
- increasing self-awareness and sensitivity to others
- self-help groups
- share a diagnosis or behavior that is the focus of the group
AG-evaluation groups
- Activity Group
* allows for assessment of both interpersonal and activity skills
AG-Task-oriented group
- Activity Group
- allow for the focus to be on both self-awareness and interactions with other group members through the activity process
AG-developmental group
- Activity Group
* focus on teaching group interaction skills that are considered developmental stage-specific
AG-thematic group
- Activity Group
* clients learning the knowledge, skills and activities for a specific activity
AG-topical group
- Activity Group
- similar to thematic group
- the difference being the focus of implementing the group activity in the community
AG-instrumental group
- Activity Group
* maintaining their current level of function and meeting health needs
Funcional Group
- developed by Howe and Schwartzberg
* incorporate the use of purposeful activity and meaningful occupation into the process and dynamics of group work
Forming
- Stages of group development
- orientation stage
- understanding the nature of the group task
- bonding with group members
Storming
- Stages of group development
- Conflict or dissatisfaction stage
- differences in opinions, personalities, and values
Norming
- Stages of group development
- resolution or structure stage
- issues are resolved and positive interpersonal communication increases
- group becomes more unified and focused on establishing group procedures and preparing for the group task
performing
- Stages of group development
- task performance or production stage
- shifts to the performance of the task and effective occupational outcomes and goal attainment
adjourning
- Stages of group development
- dissolution or termination stage
- group is over and no longer needs to meet
instilling hope
hope is nurtured when members appear to benefit from their interactions in the group
universality
group members learn that others have many of the same concerns, fears, and experiences
imparting information
members learn about themselves, but also about the group process itself
altruism
opportunity to help others and to be helped by others
corrective recapitulation of the family group
the therapy group can help a member realize and correct maladaptive behaviors that may have characterized relationships in the family group
development of socializing techniques
aka known as social learning techniques. members over time learn how to respond to others