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Stages & Functions Flashcards

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What are the four functions of a group?

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  1. Forming
  2. Storming
  3. Norming
  4. Performing
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What are the major stages of a group?

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  1. Initial
  2. Transition
  3. Working
  4. Ending
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What are the major stages of a group?

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  1. Initial
  2. Transition
  3. Working
  4. Ending
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What are the central processes of the Initial stage?

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  • Orientation & exploration
  • Learning how the group functions
  • Developing implicit/explicit group norms
  • Exploring hopes, fears and assessing safety
  • Clarifying expectations and setting personal goals
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What are the emotional challenges of the Initial stage?

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  • Dealing with ambiguity & tolerating silence
  • Identifying & clearing up ‘hidden agendas
  • Identifying & sharing own intense feelings
  • Accepting rights & responsibilities for members
  • Communicating directly but sensitively
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What are the learning tasks of the Initial Stage?

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  • Learning reflective/active listening
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What are the learning tasks of the Initial Stage?

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  • Learning reflective/active listening
  • Learning to interpret non/para-verbal behaviour
  • Improving expressions of empathy
  • Learning to give feedback tactfully & tentatively
  • Risking self-disclosure & confronting in a caring way
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What are the critical milestones of the Initial Stage?

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  • Resolving tension, conflict & boredom
  • Getting all members to openly express feelings, thoughts & reactions
  • Establishing norms & creating group cohesion
  • Shifting responsibility more from leader to members
  • Continuity and consistency in and between meetings
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What are the possible problems of the Initial Stage?

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  • Members wait passively for ‘something to happen’
  • Members keep their feelings of distrust to themselves
  • Members keep themselves ‘vague & unknown’
  • Members maintain ‘problem solving/advice giving’ stance
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What are strategies to progress from the Initial Stage?

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  • Norms that require respect for opinions & feelings of others
  • Share reservations & doubts with each other
  • Share meaningful aspects of themselves
  • Norms for dealing with conflict & differences
  • Promote member-to-member interaction
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What are strategies to progress from the Initial Stage?

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  • Norms that require respect for opinions & feelings of others
  • Share reservations & doubts with each other
  • Share meaningful aspects of themselves
  • Norms for dealing with conflict & differences
  • Promote member-to-member interaction
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What are the central processes for the Transition Stage?

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  • Expressing & ‘working through’ anxiety, defensiveness & resistance
  • Confronting/resolving struggles for control
  • Dealing with member conflict
  • Resolving challenges to the leader
  • Openly exploring participant sources of reluctance
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What are the emotional challenges for the Transition Stage?

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  • Creating emotional connections between members
  • Keeping communication simple & direct and taking risks
  • Encouraging member disclosure & dropping of hidden agendas
  • Getting members to acknowledge and express feelings
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What are the learning tasks for the Transition Stage?

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  • Learning to express one’s needs in the group
  • Learning to comment on behaviour and not use labels
  • Learning to express anger/annoyance w/out denigrating
  • Learning to confront tactfully & tentatively
  • Avoid stereotyping and over-generalizing (transference)
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What are the critical milestones of the Transition Stage?

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  • Dealing with:
    • tranference & countertransference
    • resistance by the whole group
    • subgroup alliances against others
  • Working through individual & group denial
  • Correcting ‘images’ of the leader in members’ minds
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What are the possible problems of the Transition Stage?

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  • Persistent ‘storytelling’
  • Monopolizing group time and attention
  • Withdrawing in silence and not participating
  • Members ‘interrogate’ leader and others
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What are the learning tasks of the Working Stage?

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  • Learning greater acceptance of who they are as human beings
  • Dropping facades and revealing deeper aspects of self
  • Translating insight into action
  • Confronting with tactfully & tentatively
  • Risking self-disclosure and sharing meaningful here-and-now reactions
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What are the strategies for progressing from the Transition Stage?

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  • Invite silent members to explore what their silences mean
  • Inform members who are difficult about how they are affecting others
  • Invite members to share how they are affected by problem behaviours
  • Educate silent members about the projections likely from other members
  • Help monopolizing members explore the dynamic of their behaviours
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What are the central processes of the Working Stage?

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  • Commitment of members to explore significant problems
  • Less leader structure/intervention and more group self-monitoring
  • Participants self-initiate and share leadership
  • Members offer feedback and encouragement spontaneously
  • Further development & solidification of group norms
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What are the central processes of the Ending Stage?

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  • Expressions of sadness/anxiety over impending separation
  • Members ‘pull back’ and participate less intensely
  • Expression fears about transferring learning to everyday life
  • Expression of hopes, fears and concerns for each other
  • Evaluation of overall group experience
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What are the emotional challenges of the Working Stage?

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  • Ensuring members are both supported and challenged
  • Ensuring new behaviours are reinforced in & out of group
  • Facilitate discussion of control issues, power struggles and interpersonal conflicts on a deeper level (transference, family of origin issues, etc.)
  • Facilitating transfer of learning (outside interpersonal relationships)
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What are the learning tasks of the Working Stage?

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  • Learning greater acceptance of who they are as human beings
  • Dropping facades and revealing deeper aspects of self
  • Translating insight into action
  • Confronting with tactfully & tentatively
  • Risking self-disclosure and sharing meaningful here-and-now reactions
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What are the critical milestones of the Working Stage?

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  • Establishing & maintaining group cohesion and trust
  • Group agreement on goals & action plans to achieve them
  • Majority feels sense of inclusion, others invited to be more active
  • Freedom to initiate activities or suggest specific topics
  • Willing to risk discussing threatening material in order to be known
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What are the strategies to progress in the Working Stage?

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  • Invite members to disclose what they want to see happen
  • Members share what each other can do to improve the group
  • Invite member feedback on ways leader can improve
  • “If I let you know me, you would judge me by…” (member to member)
  • Members tell the most-anticipated ‘judging’ members what they expect
  • Gestalt, letters and role-plays on transferences.
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What are the central processes of the Ending Stage?

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  • Expressions of sadness/anxiety over impending separation
  • Members ‘pull back’ and participate less intensely
  • Expression fears about transferring learning to everyday life
  • Expression of hopes, fears and concerns for each other
  • Evaluation of overall group experience
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What are the emotional challenges of the Ending Stage?

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  • Dealing with separation & transfer of behaviours to ‘outside’
  • Reviewing experiences & placing in cognitive frames
  • Preventing distancing due to separation anxiety
  • Ensure continuation of confidentiality after termination
  • Assessing strengths & weaknesses of group experience
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What are the learning tasks of the Ending Stage?

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  • Active role-playing: Involving members in each others’ transfer of learning
  • Preparing for generalizations of learning to everyday life
  • Develop specific contracts & homework with members
  • Follow-up sessions & sharing difficulties since group
  • Reminders to be selective with self-disclosures in the ‘real world’
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What are the critical milestones of the Ending Stage?

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  • Completing ‘unfinished business’ with other members
  • Making individual decisions about changes members want to make
  • Assess pre to post group changes in expectations, beliefs, values, etc.
  • Assess members’ perceptions on the group and its’ impact on them
  • Members plan follow-up session or individual contacts
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What are the strategies to progress from the Ending Stage?

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  • Encourage members to openly share their feelings about termination
  • Create self-directed change programs to facilitate continued behaviours
  • Invite members to keep records of changes (journal/progress notes)
  • Offer private consultations to individual members who need support
  • Schedule individual sessions to see whether member needs & goals met

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