Stages
The process of determining appropriateness of group members for a group.
What is Screening Procedures: group fit?
________________ all the elements that are basic to the unfolding of a group from beginning to end
What is group process?
Cognitive triangle.
What is Thinking, Feeling, and behaving model?
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?
What's said here, stays here?
What is Confidentiality?
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?
• Promoting a group purpose without adequate consideration of client need.
• Confusing purpose and content.
• Being too general about the purpose of the group so that there is little direction offered.
• Reluctance to share clinician’s perceptions and ideas about the purpose of the group.
• Clinician having a hidden purpose not shared with the group.
• Clinician not understanding group purpose as a dynamic, evolving concept that changes over the life of the group (thinking it is static and fixed).
What are six common mistakes regarding group purpose?
Kurland and Salmon
Identifying exceptions to the problem and amplifying them so they can happen more.
What Solution Focused Therapy?
The _______ aids the facilitator in being intentional when choosing what to do in session.
What is Goals/ Point Bs?
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?
High conflict time in group development where power and control are being established.
What is the storming phase?
Clarifying
Rephrasing
Framing
Focusing
Reflecting
Reality Testing
Confronting
Interpreting
Limit Setting
Exploring feelings
Asking for feedback
Scanning
Identifying nonverbal
Connecting feeling to behavior
Validation
Active Listening
Translating the message
Connecting learning to the three clients
What are facilitator tools?
This theory looks at the connections that individuals make with moments in their lives and makes sure they fit the lived experiences.
What is Narrative Therapy?
This is described as the battery power or life force of a group or sometimes the group-ness.
What is Cohesion?
Who are the individual, the group as a whole and the therapeutic environment?
Tuckman's last stage that focuses on reviewing what was learned and making it transferable to clients' live outside of group.
What is Adjoining/ transforming?
The ability to identify certain problem behaviors and to choose the appropriate intervention.
What is Assessment?
Process vs Content
What is the difference between whats happening between the group members and the lesson or task of group?
Feedback and Self-disclosure are often seen at this stage of group.
What is norming/performing?
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?
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?
Safety
Challenge
Connection/Belonging
Freedom/ Empowerment
Trust
Enjoyment
Effective Communication
What are the beliefs that assist in setting and maintaining the therapeutic environment?
Alvarez & Stauffer
A framework for designing group sessions and curriculums.
What is Alverez & Stauffer's facilitated wave model?
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 our role as facilitators?
Three types of questions to debrief.
What are: what, so what and now what questions?