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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- Support
- Education
- Growth
- Therapy
- Socialization
- 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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- Definable membership: 2 or more members identified by name or type
- Group consciousness: collective sense of unity
- Sense of shared purpose: shared goals, clarity of purpose MUST BE CLEAR
- Interdependence in satisfaction of needs: need to be independent, as time goes on, group changes the way it looks at itself
- Interaction: member communication with one another and reaction to one another
- 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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- Instillation of Hope
- Universality
- Imparting Information
- Altruism
- Corrective Recapitualation of Primary Family Group
- Development of Socializing Techniques
- Imitative Behavior
- Catharsis
- Existential Factors
- Cohesion
- Interpersonal Learning
- 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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- Pre-Affiliation
- Power and Control
- Intimacy
- Differentiation
- Separation
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