Stages
Group Work
Theories in Group Counseling
Stages...again
Guiding the response
100

The process of determining appropriateness of group members for a group.

What is Screening Procedures: group fit?

100

________________ all the elements that are basic to the unfolding of a group from beginning to end

What is group process?

100

Cognitive triangle.

What is Thinking, Feeling, and behaving model?

100

Focusing on issues that are current rather than in persons history.

What is Horizontal Processing?

or 

what we focus on in group work to not do individual therapy in front of other people?

100

What's said here, stays here?

What is Confidentiality?

200

Trust vs. mistrust.

Identifying and clarifying group goals.

Self-focus vs. focus on others.

Initial resistance.

Hidden agendas.

What are common fears shown in initial/ forming stage?

200

Discussing things as a group vs doing individual therapy in front of others.

What is horizontal questions/processing?
200

Identifying exceptions to the problem and amplifying them so they can happen more.

What Solution Focused Therapy?

200

The _______ aids the facilitator in being intentional when choosing what to do in session.

What is Goals/ Point Bs?

200

What we hope will happen when the group is over.

What is transference of learning?/ What is using skills learned in school or at home?

300

High conflict time in group development where power and control are being established.

What is the storming phase?

300

Clarifying             Rephrasing           Framing               

Focusing              Reflecting             Reality Testing 

Confronting          Interpreting          Limit Setting

Exploring feelings        Asking for feedback  

Scanning                    Identifying nonverbal

Validation                  Connecting feeling to behavior 

Active Listening         Translating the message

Connecting learning to the three clients

What are facilitator tools?

300

______ is when a problem is personified and has effects on a client's life.

What is Externalizing the problem?

300

This is described as the battery power or life force of a group or sometimes the group-ness.

What is Cohesion?

300
The three clients in a group.

Who are the individual, the group as a whole and the therapeutic environment?

400

Tuckman & Jensen's last stage of group development that focuses on reviewing what was learned and making it transferable to clients' live outside of group.

What is Adjoining/ transforming?

400

________ starts off the development of cohesion in a new group.

What is increasing familiarity?

400

Process vs Content

What is the difference between whats happening between the group members and the lesson or task of group?

400

Feedback and Self-disclosure are often seen at this stage of group.

What is norming/performing?

400

What you are doing when you front load your activity with information and then ask about it at the end of the activity?

What is framing?

500

This stage is known as the working stage of group where trust and cohesion have been built and the group can work on more complex tasks.

What is the Norming/Performing stage?

500

Yalom believes this is the power cell of group.

What is process?

500

A framework for designing group sessions and curriculums.

What is Alverez & Stauffer's  facilitated wave model?

500

1. Promote experiences that help the group obtain it’s goals

2. Introduce Activities to promote goal attainment

3. Ensure the group’s culture, norms, structures, and   relationships in the environment are conducive to attaining the group’s goals

4. Take action to assist in the group process development

What is the facilitator's role?

500

Three types of questions to debrief.

What are: what, so what and now what questions?