Transcript Importance of Disclosing Emotions Leading A Growth Groups

Leading Growth and
Counseling Groups
Joining Together
Dorothy, Juan, Michele and Wendy
Goals of Therapeutic Groups
Growth Groups
Counseling and
Therapy Groups
Self-help,
Mutual-support
groups
Emotional growth /
Improved interpersonal
relationships and group
skills.
Increased
psychological
adjustment & health
Overcoming or
coping with life
stresses, addition or
illness
•
•
•
•
•
self-enhancing pattern of behavior and attitudes.
psychological health.
the ability to build and maintain humanizing relationships.
the self-actualization .
the interpersonal effectiveness.
Types of Therapeutic Groups
1. Growth Groups
2. Counseling and Therapy Groups
•T-groups/laboratory-training
•Psychoanalytic groups
•Encounter groups
•Adlerian group psychotherapy
•Human relations training
groups
•Psychodrama
•Structured growth groups
•Gestalt group therapy
•Cognitive-behavioral group Psychotherapy
•Existential group psychotherapy
•Person-centered group psychotherapy
•Rational-emotive behavior group
•Psychotherapy
•Reality group psychotherapy
•Interpersonal group psychotherapy
3. Self-help, Mutual-support groups
The Unique Power of
Group Experiences
•Supportive community
•Vicarious learning
•Hope
•Require wide variety of social skills
•Microcosm of the world
•Influence behaviors and attitudes
•Induce and reduce powerful feelings •Helping others
•Perspective taking
•Resources for gaining insight
•Multiple sources of feedback
•Cognitive learning
•Multiple sources of social comparison
Importance of Disclosing Emotions
Leading A Growth Groups
Establishing conditions for a participant change
Being a resource expert
•
Expertise in group dynamics
•
Expertise in experimental learning
•
Expertise in the approach to health and growth
•
Expertise in diagnose
Teaching social skills and constructive patterns of behavior and reasoning
Modeling social skills and constructive behavior
Ensuring opportunities for self-disclosure and experimentation
Providing constructive feedback and confrontations
Promoting reparative emotional experiences
Guiding problem solving
Establishing and maintaining a contact
Carrying out executive functions
Conceptual Frameworks,
Feelings, and Intuition
• A Conceptual Framework is a way of looking at
members’ behavior and connecting it to a pattern,
that makes the pattern understandable.
• Feelings are often an important sources of
information , which susceptible to bias, distortion
and misunderstandings.
• Intuition is a preconscious process in which the
person has a strong feeling about how something
will turn out but does not know how the conclusions
were determined.
Growth Groups
and Participant Anxiety
• Focus mainly on emotional growth, improved
interpersonal relationships, group skills as well as
leadership skills.
• Some people are worried that participating in a
growth group will generate some levels of anxiety
that will affect them psychologically.
• Study by Johnson, Kavanagh and Lubin proved
that participating in a growth group seems to be
less stressful that taking the course examinations.
Costs of Growth
and Therapy Groups
• Growth and therapy groups have costs as
well as benefits.
• Considerable amount of time and energy.
• Bad experiences and find the group useless
• Drop outs because of more harms than
benefits
• Need for a skilled facilitator
Comparative Effectiveness
• Effectiveness means the degree to which objectives are
achieved and the extent to which targeted problems are
resolved.
• Study by Lieberman, Yalom and Miles (1973) proved that
no one group approach was found to be superior to the
others.
• The Fuhriman and Burlingame (1994) study concluded that
group methods are quite effective but that no one method is
more effective than others.
• McRoberts, Burlingame and Hoag (1998) study concluded
that group psychotherapy was quite effective, but no more so
than was individual therapy meaning they are equally
effective.
• The Bernard and Kaul study (1994) concluded that group
treatments were more effective than no treatment or other
recognized psychological treatments.
Summary
• People participate in groups with the purpose of increasing selfenhancing patterns of behavior, psychological health, improving
humanistic relationship, increasing self-actualization and
interpersonal effectiveness. Different groups are created for this
purpose.
• Although participants in a growth, therapy or self-help group
may result in significant health-producing experience, a skilled
group facilitator is needed to oversee the process.
• As a conclusion, all sorts of growth and counseling groups are
effective but no one approach seems to be more effective than
any others.