Types of Groups Flashcards
use of group settings
- give the patient some kind of a sought-for change which will help him in his efforts to get well
categories of psychological therapies
1. supportive therapy
- includes components from therapeutic schools such as psychodynamic, cognitive-behavioural, and interpersonal conceptual models and techniques
- reinforce the patient’s healthy and adaptive patterns of thought behaviours
- engage in supportive relationships with one another
categories of psychological therapies
2. re-educative therapy
- attentive listening to clients thoughts and feelings in non-judgmental environment
- based on notion that every human is innately good
categories of psychological therapies
3. insightful therapy
- helps clients understand how events in their past are negatively influencing their current thoughts, emotions, and behaviors
- learn skills in communication and conflict resolution
heterogeneous group therapies
- groups made of dissimilar individuals (different disorders, different age groups)
homogeneous group therapies
- groups made of mainly similar individuals (mostly depressed, same age etc.)
open-ended groups
- groups with continually admitting and discharging patients
closed groups
- groups with limited admission
training laboratory group
- laboratory, educational procedure
- aiming to create a situation in which participants can appraise old behaviour and look at new ones –> through own control and access to skilled professional leadership and new knowledge
- temporary removal from usual living; temporary artificial supportive culture
- experiment with new behaviours without risks and punishment
sensitivity training group
- any set of experiences attempting to help each participant to recognise and ace in himself and in others many levels of functioning
- evaluate own behaviour in light of responses elicited from himself and others
- basic data for learning come from participants themselves and from experiences within group
- opportunity for participants to expose and analyse personal behaviour
marathon group
= sensitivity training group which meets continously for periods of time (12 to 36 hours)
- heighten impact of sensitivity training with continuous, uninterrupted interactions
role of trainer in sensitivity training group
- trainer = experienced leader/facilitator who serves as a resource to the group
- helps group to make its own decisions, use its own resources
- calls attention of group to the behaviour
task/work groups
= group that comes together to perform a task that has a concrete goal (e.g. community organisations, committees, planning groups)
- specific task is to be accomplished (discussing patient); leader should keep group on task, facilitate discussion and interaction
guidance/psychoeducational group
= preventative and educational groups that help group members learn info about a particular topic or issue + might also help group members cope with that same issue (e.g. support group for suicide, prepare students to enter high school)
- leader provides information and elicits reactions and comments from members; facilitating discussion (giving exercise to do)
counselling/interpersonal problem-solving groups
= help participants resolve problems of living through interpersonal support and problem solving
psychotherapy groups
= groups focus on personality reconstruction or remediation of deep-seated psychological problem
categories of groups
- overlapping and blending of group types in same group experience often best represents the reality of the evolving practice of group work
- education groups
= the leader provides info and then elicits reactions and comments from the members
- leader serves sometimes as an educator and other times as a facilitator of discussion
(e. g. students learning study skills, women learning how to protect themselves from being raped, managers learning how to better supervise employees)
- discussion groups
= focus is usually on topics or issues rather than
any member’s personal concerns
- purpose is to give participants the opportunity to share ideas and exchange information
- leader serves mainly as a facilitator
(e.g. book club)
- task groups
= specific task is to be accomplished
- leader’s role is to keep the group on task and to facilitate discussion and interaction
e. g. staff meetings
- support groups
- consists of members with something in common, meets on a regular basis
- members share thoughts and feelings and help one another examine issues and concerns
- sharing is the group’s purpose and goal
- role of the leader is to encourage sharing
- interactions are personal, and members speak directly to one another
(e. g. teenage mothers who are still in high school)
- self-help groups
- people with similar concerns
- have no permanent, professional leader
(e. g. alcoholics anonymous)
- growth groups and experiential groups
- growth groups: members want to experience being in a group, motivated to learn more about themselves
- -> opportunity to explore and develop personal goals and better understand themselves and others
- experiential groups: leader designs experiential activities for the members (often outside, physical challenges, cooperation, risk taking)
- counseling and therapy groups
- members come to the group because of certain problems in their lives
- leader focuses the group on different individuals and their problems; then, members try to help one another with the leader’s guidance
- therapy groups: more sever problems, use some kind of theory
