Group Counseling Flashcards

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What is authoritarian leadership style?

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The leader sees Him/herself as an expert.
Very directive
Like the least by members

Aka: X group leadership

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What is Democratic leadership style?

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Leadership is shared.
Members behave appropriately.
The most productive style

Aka theory Y group leadership

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What is laissez-faire leadership style?

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No leadership is in place.
Generally ineffective

Aka Theory Z group leadership

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What are Yalom’s leadership types?

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Impersonal – are distant and aggressive.
Managers – structure activities and controlled how members interact.
Laissez-fairies- Low support low control (low)
Social engineers – group focus
Energizers- caring and charismatic (moderate)
Providers- specialize in caring and meaning attributions (best)

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What are group leader skills?

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Active listening
Reflection and clarification
Questioning and summarizing
Information giving
Encouragement and support
Modeling
Self disclosure at appropriate times
Blocking
Attending behavior
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What are poor choices for group membership unless the group is specifically designed to deal with?

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Hostile
Physically aggressive 
Paranoid
Active suicidal 
Actively homicidal 
Psychotic 
Totally self centered
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What are the most important member trait?

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The ability to trust and the ability to feel cohesion.

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What are the members’ traits correlated to premature termination from groups?

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Low intelligence, low motivation and high denial.

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Ethical guidelines require that risk of group membership be discussed when?

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During the screening interview and as soon as is possible thereafter.

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ASGW ethical guidances states?

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Group leaders shall inform members that participation is voluntary and they may exit the group at any time.

If clients are in “mandatory treatment” clients should be told that appropriate notification will be made.

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What are Tuckman and Jensen developmental group stages?

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Forming/ orientation 
Storming/ transition 
Norming
Performing/working 
Adjourning
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Characteristics of forming stage/ orientation stage?

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Initiate getting acquainted 
Focus members
Create trust 
Deal with initial resistance and fears
Start a session
Ending a session 
Teach member self-evaluation
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Characteristics of storming stage/ transitions?

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Deal with defensive behaviors 
Deal with difficult members 
Deal with conflict 
Explore common fears and resistance 
Deal with challenges to the leader.
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Characteristics of performing/ working stage/ action/ productive stage?

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Deal with expressed confusion 
Deal with issue of closeness 
Teach appropriate disclosure 
Elicit emotional responses 
Deal with the fear of losing control
Deal with intense emotions 
Work with dreams 
Work with projection and self-awareness problems.
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Characteristics of adjourning stage/ termination/ separation?

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End a session
Terminate a group
Assess and follow up
Evaluate a group

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The word “structure” is used in the field of group work in three contexts?

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The basic format or formulation of the groups.
The use of structured exercises or tasks given by the leader to the groups.
Group focused on a particular theme or topic.

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Group structure for adult groups?

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Few as three members and as many as fifteen.
Groups usually have between 8 to 10 members.
Optimum size 8

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Group structure for Adolescent groups?

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Adolescents do well in groups with their peers.

Group size can range from 6 to 8 members.

Optimum size is 6

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Group structure for children’s groups?

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Younger children are usually place in small groups of 2 but never over 5.

Optimum size is 3 to 4

Their own age but with somewhat diverse problems

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Closed groups

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No new members at the start date.

Promotes cohesiveness and trust

Drop in membership me cut the over all interactions of members

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Open groups

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New members allowed after state date

Cost effective

Members joining after first session do not receive info\experiences shared earlier.

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Homogenous groups

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Members are alike

Have similar problems

Advantages: promotes cohesiveness

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Heterogeneous groups

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Not alike
Problems are different

Advantage: replicates The real world and allows clients to learn from others.

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Classifications of groups Caplan’s crisis intervention model

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Primary groups:
Preventive; teach coping strategies.
Example: diet, weight mgmt

Secondary groups:
Disturbing behaviors, problems present, but is not severe.
Example: grief

Tertiary groups:
Deal with severe, long-standing problems.

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Negative and\or destructive task Roles

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Scapegoat- A member who blames by other members.
Interrogator- constantly ask questions
Peeping tom- ask inappropriate questions
Story teller-take of time telling irrelevant stories.
Joker- use jokes as smokescreen
Isolate- rejected and ignore; or giving little to no attention

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Types of groups requiring specialized training

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Task and work groups.
Psycho education groups.
Group counseling
Group psychotherapy

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Advantages of group counseling

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Benefits of interpersonal relationships
Less expensive than individual counseling
Therapeutic orientation
Provide support groups
Learn problem-solving strategy
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Disadvantage of group counseling

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Difficulty in recruiting and matching members.
Individual needs not addressed
Client confidentiality is difficult to maintain

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Psychoanalytic groups

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Found by Alexander Wolf

Group members work through repressed conflicts to restructure their personality and character

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Psychoanalytical groups will go through the six stages

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Individual assessment to see if they are suitable.
Rapport through interpretation of dreams and fantasies.
Free association interactions
Analysis of resistance
Analysis of transference
Conscious personal actions and social integration

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Psychodrama groups

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Jacob Moreno

Catharsis: a release of pent up feeling and emotions

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Existential groups

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Irvin Yalom

Encourage members to explore choices

Ultimate concerns are the human existence:
Death, Freedom, isolation and meaninglessness.

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Person centered groups

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Three varmint to attitude for about it the big drive for a persons to achieve self-actualization:
Genuineness
Unconditional positive regards
Empathy

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Transactional analysis group

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Eric Berne

Individuals make decisions based on current belief.

Help to identify illogical beliefs

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Rational emotive-behavior therapy groups

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Views problems as stemming from peoples responsive, processing, or an interpretation of external events

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Electric counselors

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Attempt to choose the best theoretical approach based on the client’s attributes, resources, and situations.

The word eclectic is associated with Fredrick C. Throne

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The term group therapy was coined in 1931 by

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John Moreno, the father of psychodynamic

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Horizontal approaches

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Strategies that approach the group as a whole.

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Vertical interventions

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Strategies that focus on an individual member of the group.