Ending or Closing Groups
The skill that group members use to reflect and recall significant events or experiences in the group at its end?
What is capping?
These are the cultural values, assumptions and awareness that any good group leader needs to be aware of in order to understand how they might impact the group process.
What are biases?
The approach to group work where individuals divide and sit in two concentric circles.
What is inner circle/outer circle approach?
Group counseling within schools usually takes one of three approaches in dealing with children and their problems. This one is defined as intensive psychotherapy groups that focus on deep psychological healing, behavioral change, and restructuring a person's core personality or intrapersonal functioning.
What is personality reconstruction groups?
This type of group emphasizes skill-building, information dissemination, and prevention.
What is a psychoeducation group?
During orientation is when this should be first addressed.
What is closure/termination?
A professional counselor is not aware of how diversity influences intra- and interpersonal interactions within groups, which is a stage of social justice.
What is naivety?
When dealing with a group of adolescents forced to participate in group work, the counselor should generally begin by listening to the members’ complaints about being there.-- True or False?
What is True?
Many experts in the field of counseling children (e.g., Dinkmeyer, Keats, Muro) believe that, prior to the age of twelve, this should be a primary tool in group work with children.
What is play and action?
Yalom defines which therapeutic factor as learning that one ultimately takes responsibility for the way one lives one's life, no matter how much guidance and support gets received from others?
What is existential factors?
This activity within a group is one of the most common tasks and is defined as the cognitive and practical process of choosing a single course of action from two or more available alternatives to solve a problem or reach a goal.
What is engage in cognitive decision-making?
This term in group work emphasizes empowerment, self-determination, advocacy, and change in order to confront unfairness and inequality in society.
What is social justice?
According to Tuckman’s model of group development, this stage is typically characterized by interpersonal conflict, resistance to influence, and the struggle for control and positioning within the group.
What is storming?
According to Ritchie and Huss, group work with minor clients might open school counselors to legal liability actions by parents or guardians if the counselor's actions somehow associate their child with _____________.
What is a negative label?
Anxiety, defensiveness, hidden agendas, testing the leader and the environment are all part of this stage of Corey's framework?
What is the transition stage?
This is defined as the process of assessing or estimating attributes (such as traits, behaviors, abilities, or clinical characteristics) of an individual or group using systematic measurement tools.
What is appraisal?
This is the term for the type of differences in and across all cultural groups, according to your text, including European Americans.
What is there are more within-group differences than between-group differences?
A group member remarks, "Hearing all of you talk about your deep anxieties makes me realize I am not the only one who feels this broken and isolated." Which of Yalom’s therapeutic factors is primarily being illustrated here?
What is universality?
Generally, children below the age this age are not involved in group work because of the egocentristic nature of their development.
What is 5 years of age?
Group leaders cannot legally or practically enforce this among individual group members, making education, informed consent, and boundary setting vital for an ethical understanding of group limits.
What is confidentiality?
In closed-ended counseling groups this is the number of sessions that should be focused on the ending of group. (It is a range).
What is 2-4 sessions?
According to Muller and Hartman, regarding school counselors’ preparedness to work with LGBTQI adolescents in schools, what is an accurate statement about their feelings of being prepared?
What is school counselors feel ill-prepared to work with LGBTQI adolescents in schools?
A group leader who dictates policy, sets tasks and steps without group participation, and fosters high dependence on the leader is exhibiting which style of leadership.
What is authoritariam/autocratic?
These types of groups are designed to enable children to explore their feelings, concerns and behaviors about a number of everyday subjects.
What is growth-centered groups?
This is the emotional release and purging of strong pent-up feelings within a safe group environment is described by Yalom.
What is catharsis?