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SOWK505 Exam Flashcards

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Purpose

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  • The reason the group is together/goals?
  • What do members think purpose is?
  • Determines how you lead members in a group.
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Time

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  • Where are you in the session?
  • Where is group in development process?
  • Beginning: don’t push
  • Middle: push to go deeper
  • End: don’t push, might open Pandora’s box
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Treatment Group Purpose

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  • To facilitate the socio-emotional needs of members
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Task Group purpose

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  • To get the task done
  • Purpose not intrinsically nor immediately linked to needs of members in the group
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Types of Treatment Group

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  1. Support
  2. Education
  3. Growth
  4. Therapy
  5. Socialization
  6. Self-Help
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Support Group Typology

(Purpose, Leadership, Focus, Bond, Composition, Communication)

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  • Purpose: Help members cope with stressful life events and revitalize coping abilities
  • Leadership: Facilitator, empathic understanding, mutual aid
  • Focus: Ability of individual to cope with life experience, communication, mutual aid
  • Bond: shared stressful experience, stigmatizing
  • Composition: based on shared life experience, often diverse
  • Communication: sharing of info, experiences, coping strategies, disclosure
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Education Group Typology

(Purpose, Leadership, Focus, Bond, Composition, Communication)

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  • Purpose: Education through presentations, discussions and experience
  • Leadership: Leader as teacher
  • Focus: Individual learning, group structured for learning
  • Bond: Common interest in learning, development of skills
  • Composition: similarity of education/skill level
  • Communication: Frequently leader-to-member, didactic, low self-disclosure
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Growth Group Typology

(Purpose, Leadership, Focus, Bond, Composition, Communication)

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  • Purpose: Develop members’ potential awareness, insight
  • Leadership: Leader as facilitator and role model
  • Focus: Either member or group focus, depending on approach, individual growth through group experiecne
  • Bond: Common goals among members, contract to use group to grow
  • Composition: diverse, based on members’ ability to work toward growth/development
  • Communication: highly interactive, members take responsibility for communications, self disclosure is moderate to high
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Therapy Group Typology

(Purpose, Leadership, Focus, Bond, Composition, Communication)

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  • Purpose: Behavior change, correction, rehabilitation, coping, problem solving through behavior change intervention
  • Leadership: Leader as expert, authority figure
  • Focus: individual members’ problems, concerns or goals
  • Bond: common purpose with separate member goals, relationship of member with worker, group or other members
  • Composition: diverse or people with similar concerns/problems
  • Communication: leader-to-member or member-to-member, self disclosure is moderate to high
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Self-Help Group Typology

(Purpose, Leadership, Focus, Bond, Composition, Communication)

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  • Purpose: Help members solve own problems
  • Leadership: Leader is lay person with problem shared by members
  • Focus: Members working together to solve own problems
  • Bond: Acceptance that all members are equal and can help each other
  • Composition: based solely on shared problem or concern
  • Communication: diverse and open to membership, welcoming, member-to-member communication, self-disclosure is high
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Definition of a Small Group (6)

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  1. Definable membership: 2 or more members identified by name or type
  2. Group consciousness: collective sense of unity
  3. Sense of shared purpose: shared goals, clarity of purpose MUST BE CLEAR
  4. Interdependence in satisfaction of needs: need to be independent, as time goes on, group changes the way it looks at itself
  5. Interaction: member communication with one another and reaction to one another
  6. Ability to act in unitary manner: group able to act as single organism and make decisions as a whole
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Process VS Content

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  • Content: what happened (meeting minutes)
  • Process: how it happened (discussions to come to a decision)
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Mutual Aid

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  • group is primary source of change
  • worker’s role to help members work together to achieve their goals
  • leaders make it a safe place, but members are key
  • power of group from members’ ability to help each other
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Empowerment

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  • Process of increasing personal, interpersonal and political power so individuals and communities can improve environments
  • Members need to feel capable and knowledgable about change
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Yalom’s Therapeutic Factors

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  1. Instillation of Hope
  2. Universality
  3. Imparting Information
  4. Altruism
  5. Corrective Recapitualation of Primary Family Group
  6. Development of Socializing Techniques
  7. Imitative Behavior
  8. Catharsis
  9. Existential Factors
  10. Cohesion
  11. Interpersonal Learning
  12. Group as a Social Microcosm
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Closed VS Open Groups

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  • Closed: fixed membership, not open to drop-ins
  • Open: open membership, don’t know if members are returning
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Model for working with Involuntary Members in Groups

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  • acknowledge resistance
  • make them feel part of group
  • help them accept they need to be there
  • assist them with willingness to be clients
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Conflicts in Groups

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  • Conflict is normal
  • Conflict is healthy - if handled effectively
  • Engage conflict, expect it, welcome it
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Professional Association (definition)

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  • coalition of members advocating for members and members’ clients
  • education
  • promotion
  • dues
  • newsletters
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Developmental Model of Groups

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  • Groups are not static, they change over time.
  • appropriate interventions for each stage
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Aim of beginning sessions

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  • create comfort, connection, belongingness
  • greater participant –> cohesion, achievement of goals, bond, motivation
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Social Capital (Robert Putnam)

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  • connections and networks among individuals which lead to trust
  • how many, deep, useful connections do you have?
  • higher social capital leads to living longer (helps decrease isolation)
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Stages of Group Development

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  1. Pre-Affiliation
  2. Power and Control
  3. Intimacy
  4. Differentiation
  5. Separation
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