Introduction, History, Theory, and Planning (1, 2, & 6)
You are a social worker who is planning a new group within your agency to meet the needs of the community and to help decrease the number of clients currently on a waitlist to for individual services. You develop a written document to present your ideas to your supervisor. This document is called a ________________.
What is a Proposal?
In an established group, members regularly attend and appear excited to be present, have developed relationships with one another, feel a sense of belonging, and find purpose in the work accomplished, which describes this dimension of group dynamics.
What is Group Cohesion?
At the first meeting of a group, the leader begins by introducing themselves to the members. During this process, they also provide an answer to the group ice breaker of their favorite coping skill, which is an example of this.
What is Self-Disclosure?
This specialized treatment intervention method allows members to learn about their roles in relationships and practice learned skills; the course textbook gave several examples including primary and secondary options.
What is Role Playing?
In the Banks article you read this semester, this question was introduced: “Imagine that a year has passed and you decide to write a letter to all of us with good news. What would the good news be?” This is an example of a _______ _________.
What is a Miracle Question?
You are a social worker in a school facilitating a support group for teenagers who are struggling with socialization. The members have started opening up with one another about their struggles, showing support, and sharing resources. At the next meeting one student is clearly distraught. She tells you that another member disclosed a private detail to their friend about her that she shared in group. This is a common concern with group work and is a breach of ___________.
What is Confidentiality?
This type of treatment group would best meet the needs of single parents who feel isolated and have desire to connect with others who have similar experiences.
What are Support Groups?
These are shared beliefs and expectations about how to behave in group and are part of the social integration group dynamic.
What are Norms?
This concerning interaction and communication pattern is observed in groups where all or most communication is directed toward the worker.
What is Member-to-Leader Communication?
This occurs when group contagion takes over and members fail to express their own thoughts and feelings.
What is Group Think?
Groups whose benefits outweigh their costs are considered this.
What is Efficient (or cost effective)?
For the SOWK5400 course this semester, the group collectively planned the final exam and decided on a jeopardy game. This is an example of the professor using this leadership skill.
What is Sharing Power (or Power Sharing)?
Groups that come together intentionally for a specific purpose.
What are Formed Groups?
An effective group leader attempts to empower members to take on leadership roles in the group, which is referred to as this type of leadership.
What is Indigenous?
In the first couple of group meetings a leader attempts to create a sense of this before moving on to their agenda and goals.
What is Safety (or Security)?
A worker has noticed in the last several group meetings one specific member has been disruptive and distracting. The intervention the social worker should implement first is this.
What is Ignoring?
Terminations can be due to ___________ or ____________ leaving the group.
Who are Workers (or leaders, social worker, facilitators) or Members (or clients)?
A worker in a community mental health agency recently started a new series of his 10-week anxiety management group. He began discussing individual and group goals with members in the intake and screening process and has continued this in group meetings. In the first meeting, after spending time exploring possible individual goals, the worker met with each member briefly to write down the goals and objectives they want to accomplish. This document is referred to as a ___________.
What is a Contract?
In practice, values refer to our beliefs, while _______ refers to our behavior and actions.
What are Ethics?
A group leader attends to this in groups when using a multicultural lens that emphasizes anti-oppression, social justice, and cultural competence.
What is Diversity?
Often group leaders focus on the content (what) of the group; it is beneficial to directly point out group processes (how) by recognizing the ________ and _______.
What is the Here and Now?
When working with reluctant or resistant group members, leaders should emphasize this type of consequence.
What is Natural?
When selecting existing measures to use in evaluation, tools should have good psychometric properties and be __________ and __________.
What are Valid and Reliable?
Many problems and populations we work in group practice as social workers have well researched and effective methods of addressing specific client concerns, including treatment manuals, which can be referred to as __________ ___________ approaches.
What are Evidence-Based?
If a group leader is helping members change problem and negative life stories using positive reframing and externalizing, the are likely using which therapeutic approach?
What is Narrative?
You are a new social worker who is leading your first treatment group meeting. As you prepare, you are reviewing facilitation skills you learned in your groups class in school. You remember that non-verbal communications, like facial expressions and head nodding, are an important skill and they are referred to as ____________ ______________.
What are Attending Behaviors?
A social worker assesses each group member’s readiness for change using this model.
What is the Transtheoretical Stages of Change Model?
During the middle phase of a treatment group, the leader praises members for sharing, reminds members they have stake in the group direction, and encourages them to try out new skills. These actions can be best described by this model.
What is Empowerment?
During the last couple of group meetings, a worker helps members identify what they have learned and how they can use those insights and skills across many different settings and scenarios. This is referred to as ____________.
What is Generalizability?
A common template for documentation that social workers use are SOAP notes where the S, O, A, and P stand for these words.
What are Subjective, Objective, Assessment, and Plan?