Week 1
A type of group whose purpose is to perform a task and/or they have a concrete goal.
What is Task Group?
Underlying elements present in group therapy that contribute to individual healing and improvement.
What is Therapeutic Factors?
The leader skill that calls on the insightfulness of the leader in finding ways of relating what one person is doing or saying to the concerns of another person in group.
What is Linking?
Attitudes that are transferred from client to therapist. Often have conscious and unconscious roots
What is Transference?
Observe
Report
Assumption
Level
This type of group deals with special populations and/or specific issues. The main goal is to offer support, comfort, and connectedness to others.
What is Support Group?
Type of role where the leader takes a high degree of control, may be more rigid. Less process oriented. Common in task groups as well as psychoeducational.
Skill that requires the leader to block counterproductive behaviors without attacking the questioner.
1. Groups are suited for everyone
This is an inevitable part of the group therapy process and can be how clients respond to fear, doubt, or perceived loss of control.
What is resistance?
Name 3 advantages of group therapy.
1. Groups are cost effective
2. Groups provide commonality
3. Groups offer differing perspectives.
Name the 5 stages of group therapy
1. Forming/Orientation
2. Storming/Conflict
3. Norming
4. Performing/Working
5. Adjourning/Termination
Name three common reasons for anxiety in group leaders
1. Silence
2. Fear of being challenged or disliked
3. Fear of being overwhelmed by the group.
More of an isolator than an outlier. They actively stay withdrawn from the group and display behaviors that don't fit the group.
What is a Deviant?
This is an issue not openly acknowledged or discussed and may not be in the group members conscious awareness.
What is Hidden Agenda?
Name 4 disadvantages of group therapy
1. Confidentiality difficult to maintain.
2. Group leaders have less control than in individual therapy.
3. Group leaders aren't always properly trained.
4. Scapegoating is more likely to occur.
Group counseling works best with this amount of members
What is 6-8 members?
In the here-and-now, these are the actual words spoken
What is Content?
Skills that invite the client to talk and promote openness (Hint: there are 7 ways to communicate this way)
What is Nonverbal Skills?
Three signs trust is lacking within a group
1. Excessively quiet
2. Put more energy into helping others or offering advice
3. Make excuses for lack of participation
You are preparing to lead group atyour college for undergraduate students who have experienced sexual assault while on campus. This group will be for biological women only. Name 1 inclusion criteria and 1 exclusion criteria for this group and provide a rationale for each.
1. Inclusion = Members of the group must currently be enrolled at the college/university and in good academic standing. Members who are not currently enrolled or who are on academic warning/probation may cause turnover within the group. Members who are currently enrolled can be assumed to be at the university for another full semester and provide ample membership for the group.
2. Exclusion = Faculty. This group is only for undergraduate students, so current facility/staff would not meet inclusion criteria.
Name 5 therapeutic factors
1. Universality
2. Instillation of Hope
3. Catharsis
4. Group Cohesion
5. Imparting Information
Unwritten rules of group
What is Group Norms?
The multicultural component model includes these three components...
What is knowledge, awareness, and skills?
This is not tearing someone down, rather it's a way to deliver feedback in a way that focuses on specific, observable behaviors.
What is confrontation?