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Groups Process and Practices Study For Final Exam Study Guide Solutions Task Group - ANSWER-Task groups are common in communities, business, and educational settings. Focus is on the application of group dynamics principles and processes to improve practice and foster accomplishment of identifi...

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Groups Process and Practices Study For

Final Exam Study Guide Solutions


Task Group - ANSWER✔✔-Task groups are common in communities, business, and educational settings.

Focus is on the application of group dynamics principles and processes to improve practice and foster

accomplishment of identified work goals. Get down to business quickly. Warm up, action, and closure

are important. Role of Leader is to assist participants in understanding how attention to interpersonal

climate directly relates to achieving purpose/goals of group.


Psychoeducational Group - ANSWER✔✔-Structured Groups. Group members who have deficit in certain

areas such as parenting or assertiveness skills. Ex: Substance Abuse Prevention Groups. Development of

Cognitive, affective, and behavioral skills. Leaders task is are to provide instruction and create positive

climate that fosters learning.


Counseling Group - ANSWER✔✔-Deals with Conscious Problems. Resolution of specific short-term

issues. Interpersonal process and problem-solving strategies that stress conscious thoughts, feelings and

behavior. Structure activities of group to maintain climate favorable to productive work, facilitate

members interaction, provide information for members to see alternatives to their modes of behavior to

encourage to translate insights into concrete action.




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Psychotherapy Group - ANSWER✔✔-To alleviate specific symptoms or psychological problems. i.e,

depression, sexual difficulties, eating disorders, anxiety or psychosomatic disorders. Leader creates

climate that fosters understanding and exploration of a problem area. Includes dreams.


Therapeutic Factors - ANSWER✔✔-The dynamics within a group that play key role in producing

constructive changes


Catharsis - ANSWER✔✔-Therapeutic factor that involves expression of feelings that have been denied

expression; Feelings can be released verbally/physically


Final Stage - ANSWER✔✔-Time in a group for members to consolidate learning and develop ways for

transferring learning to daily living


Unfinished Business - ANSWER✔✔-Encourage members to express and work through personal

concerns/reactions to others prior to final meeting of group


Contracts - ANSWER✔✔-Final Stage of Group that outlines specific steps members agree to take that

increases chances of successfully meeting their goals when group ends.


Postgroup Meetings - ANSWER✔✔-Follow-up sessions scheduled sometime after termination of groups

as a evaluative approach/measure of accountability


Define and give a brief example of the skill of linking. - ANSWER✔✔-Linking is a technique aimed at

promoting member-to-member interaction and facilitating exploration of common themes in a group.EX:

Katherine describes feelings that she might not be loved because she is less than perfect, Pamela may



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have similar feelings so leader would ask the two ladies to talk with each other in group about their

fears.


At times group leaders must block certain behaviors of group members. Give some examples


of behaviors you would be inclined to block. - ANSWER✔✔-Ex: Probing, gossiping, invading another's

privacy, breaking confidences, questioning.


Why is it essential that a group leader be able both to confront and to support? - ANSWER✔✔-Because

confronting is both caring and a skill, however if/when group member's behavior is disruptive of group

functioning or when discrepancies between verbal messages/nonverbal messages are displayed. It

challenges both individual members and groups as a whole. If the group seems to be low in energy and

characterized by superficial discussions, and to change what's happening in group. Supportive behavior

can be therapeutic or counterproductive. Support is appropriate when people are facing a crisis,

venturing into frightening territory, attempting constructive changes, struggling to rid themselves of old

patterns by the leaders presence so the clients feel they're not alone.


Group leaders must learn when and how to terminate their work with both individuals and groups. What

criteria would you consider in determining when an individual is ready to terminate from a group? -

ANSWER✔✔-Contracts at the end of each session to create a climate to encourage individual to do work

between sessions. Help build skills they will need when they have to go back to their everyday lives.


What are some considerations in bringing a group to termination? - ANSWER✔✔-Provide members with

suggestions for transferring what they've learned in group to environment they must return without the

continuing support of group 2) Prepare for the psychological adjustments they may face on leaving group


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