Schools, Community

Question 1

Groups in School Setting

Answer 1

• emphasize prevention and intervention strategies
• generally brief, structured, problem focused, homogeneous in membership, and may have a cognitive behavioral orientation

Question 2

working with kids considerations

Answer 2

• Know laws regarding group work with minors
• Do not tell children that you can keep everything they discuss confidential
• Plan to secure parental or guardian written permission

Question 3

Adolescent Groups

Answer 3

• Peers become an important source of support, which makes groups a treatment of choice for adolescents
• They’re quick to pick up on inauthenticity so be honest
• Adolescence will test grp leaders and peers so go into it expecting that
• Common challenges include developing trust and setting limits to self-disclosure
• Understanding the world of young people does not mean that you become one of them

Question 4

Groups in College

Answer 4

• Time-limited groups with structured topics or themes
• short term, lasting up to 16 weeks
• therapeutic focus with an educational component

Question 5

Groups with kids

Answer 5

• get the administrators’ support
• explain keeping confidences in language they can grasp
• Involve parents in group work
• role play
• play therapy

Question 6

Groups for Women

Answer 6

• Discovering their personal strengths and resources
• Working on interpersonal relationships in the group context
• Eliminating patriarchal oppression
• Practicing and modeling new behaviors in a safe environment

Question 7

Groups for Men

Answer 7

• Assists men in clarifying their gender roles
• Provides a context where men can bring all of their feelings into the open and be healed by support of others
• Provide a place for connecting with other men, a place to be heard, and a place to talk about being a father, having a father, relationships, divorce, aging, and transitions
• Most men’s groups contain a psychoeducational component and an interpersonal, process-oriented dimension

Question 8

Groups for Older Adults

Answer 8

• Group work is one way to promote the positive aspects of aging and to help participants cope with the developmental tasks of aging
• Groups offer unique advantages for older adults who have a great need to be listened to and understood
• Older adults need a clear explanation of the group’s purposes and potential benefits
• Revealing personal matters may be extremely difficult for some older adults due to their cultural conditioning
• Specialized knowledge is required to treat the unique problems that older adults face

Question 9

List 3 Grps for elderly

Answer 9

• Reminiscing
• Physical fitness
• Body awareness
• Grief work
• Occupational therapy
• Reality orientation
• Music and art therapy
• Combined dance and movement
• Preretirement and postretirement issues
• Remotivation
• Organic brain syndrome
• Health-related issues

Question 10

Themes in elderly grps

Answer 10

• Loss and the struggle to find meaning
• Loneliness and social isolation
• Poverty
• Feelings of rejection
• Regrets over past events
• Hopeless and despair
• Fears of death and dying
• Grief over others’ deaths
• Dependency
• Sadness over mental and physical deterioration

Question 11

Examples of Groups in Community Settings

Answer 11

• All gender groups
• Domestic violence groups
• Substance abuse use disorder
• Support groups for survivors of incest
• Older adult aging groups
• Older adult bereavement groups
• Institutionalized older adults