Group Leadership Skills
Demonstrating desired behavior through your actions
What is Modeling?
In this third stage of group development, the leader deals with reluctance.
What is the transition stage?
Attending to verbal and nonverbal aspects of communication without judging or evaluating, done to encourage trust and client self-disclosure and exploration?
What is active listening?
A BSW doing Psychotherapy with a client.
What is practicing out of the scope of knowledge?
An approach that focuses on positive abilities reather than deficiencies.
What is Strengths-Based?
Paraphrasing what a participant has said to clarify it's meaning.
What is Restating?
In this stage, the leader's primary tasks are inclusion and identity, which includes but is not limited to, establishing trust, helping to identify goals, working in the hear-and-now.
What is the Initial Stage - Orientation and Exploration?
Pulling together the important interaction or session with the goal of avoiding fragmentation and giving direction to a session; to provide for continuity and meaning.
What is Summarizing?
Emotional and Physical exhaustion leading to a diminished ability to empathize with or feel compassion for others.
What is Compassion Fatigue?
The analysis of facts to form a judgment.
What is critical thinking?
Offering possible explanations for certain thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.
What is interpreting?
In this stage, the group begins to experience cohesion and productivity, and is marked by such things as empathy and caring, intimacy, hope, cognitive restructuring, among others.
What is Stage 4, the Working Stage?
Appraising the ongoing group process and the individual and group dynamics to promote better self-awareness and understanding of group movement and direction. Ultimately to improve service delivery.
What is Evaluation?
The limits to the relationship between someone in a professional role and the person in their care.
What are boundaries?
The ability to understand, appreciate, and interact with people from cultures or belief systems different from one's own.
What is Cultural Competency?
Communicating understanding of the content of feelings.
What is reflecting feelings?
Elements of this stage are often skipped, but engaging in this stage can lower attrition rates in the future.
What is Stage 1: Pregroup Issues?
Intervening to stop counterproductive group behavior, to protect members and to enhance the flow of the group process.
What is Blocking?
This theory explores self-determination, freedom, and personal responsibility as well as death and nonbeing.
What is the Existential approach to groups?
The main techniques of this model include raising open-ended questions, affirming strengths, summarizing what has gone on in session, and encouraging clients to explore their ambivalence about changing.
What is Motivational Interviewing?
What is Terminating?
This stage is marked by review and reinforcing of changes made by each member, assisting members in reexamining their relationship with the group leader and other members, and helping members learn how to face future challenges using the skills they have acquired in group.
What is Stage 5: Final Stage- Consolidation and Termination?
Connecting the work that members do to common themes in the group with the goal of promoting member-to-member interactions and to encourage the development of cohesion.
What is Linking?
A client's tone of voice, tears, clenched fists are examples of.
What are non-verbal cues?
A dynamic between a client and a social worker when the client redirects an unconscious feeling, desire, or expectation from another person toward their social worker.
What is Transference?