Mosey's Developmental Groups
What group consists of clients performing individual tasks?
Parallel Groups
What is storming?
Involves conflict among group members as they challenge the task, the rules, and the leader
What is the level of direction for a directive leadership style?
Lots of directions via gentle guidance, while listening to members and being open
What are the leadership styles?
Directive, Facilitative, & Advisory
What group uses an advisory style of leadership?
Mature Group
What is forming?
Forming is the orientation of a group, establishment of norms, group flow, group structure, and guidance from the leader.
What type of population would an advisory leadership style be for?
Clients with higher cognitive functioning, a family/caregiver, support group, or self-help group
What are Mosey's developmental groups?
Parallel, project, egocentric-cooperative, & mature
What is a project group?
A project group emphasizes task accomplishment with some interaction. It mainly follows a directive leadership, but can advance to a facilitative leadership if the group has been working well together for a while. This can look like a class time capsule.
What is norming?
Harmony prevails and members accept and trust one another while conflicts are avoided.
What's the difference between directive and facilitative leadership in regards to an OT's role?
Directive leadership defines groups, selects activities, & structures groups.
Facilitative leadership structures groups, provides information and supplies, serves as a resource person, & gains strong member rapport
Overall, directive leadership is more structured than facilitative.
What are Tuckman's (5) stages of team development?
1. Forming
2. Storming
3. Norming
4. Performing
5. Reforming
What groups utilize a facilitative leadership style?
Project (mainly uses directive leadership), Egocentric-Cooperative, & Cooperative Groups
What is performing?
Cohesiveness and openly discussed conflict so it can be resolved
What level of direction is used in advisory leadership?
The group makes their own decision, while the OT facilitates. They work on problem-solving and higher functioning skills.
What are the (3) schema of development phases designed by Yalom & Lescz?
Orientation, conflict, & cohesive maturity
What is the difference between egocentric-cooperative and cooperative groups?
Egocentric-cooperative groups utilize facilitative leadership to encourage members to gratify the social and emotional needs of other members. The task is secondary to social aspects.
Cooperative groups utilize a advisor leadership style that makes the OT a coequal member. The group is more cohesive and shares thoughts, feelings, values, and interests.
What is reforming?
Learning from experience and reorganizing for the future
A group of middle schoolers collaborate weekly to design and construct a community mural for the school hallway. Each week they work together on different sections of the mural while contributing their ideas and skills. What leadership role would best serve this group?
Bonus: What developmental group would this be?
Facilitative leadership because the students are working on a task that requires resources and supplies. Their maturity and cognition is at a medium level, therefore they may require guidance from the OT leader to attain group cohesiveness.
This would be a project group because students are given a task that offers them independent roles while working in a group to complete a project.
What are Mosey's 6 adaptive skills?
1. Sensory integration skill
2. Cognitive skill
3. Dyadic interaction skill
4. Group interaction skill
5. Self-identity
6. Sexual identity