Types of Groups Techniques Group Stages Group Dynamics Potpourri
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Task Groups
This type of group that emphasizes successfully completing identified goals.
100
Linking
Name the skill that involves connecting specific group members to show them they share similar thoughts, emotions, or issues.
100
Adjourning
In the five-stage model of groups, this is the name of the last stage, which addresses termination.
100
Universality
This is the name of Yalom's group therapeutic factor that describes when members feel relief that they are not alone, and that others share similar struggles and concerns.
100
15-20 minutes
This is the appropriate amount of time to limit sessions to for groups involving younger elementary level students (K-2).
200
Psychoeducational
This type of group involves teaching content and/or specific skills.
200
Normalizing
This skill helps group members to see that their concern or issue is not unique, and that most people would feel or react as they have.
200
Pre-screening
This practice is how we ensure that potential members' needs, dispositions, and cognitive abilities are appropriately served by group counseling.
200
Catharsis
Described as a “purging of emotion,” this is the intense outward emotional expression of feeling that can take place during group sessions.
200
Immediacy
This technique can involve calling attention to a group members' nonverbal communication (body language, facial expressions, and tone of voice).
300
Open-Ended
This type of group allows members to join and leave at any time.
300
Icebreaker
This type of activity allows group members to warm up to other group members and the topic at hand toward the beginning of group.
300
Process/Processing/Discussion
As groups develop, typically less time is spent on content material, and more time is focused on this instead.
300
Monopolizer
This is the term for a type of group member who makes excessive verbal contributions, preventing equal participation by other group members.
300
Adlerian
A group structured under this theoretical orientation would stress that group member should become more socially oriented, personally integrated, and goal directed.
400
Psychotherapy
This type of group is long-term, intensive, and would be inappropriate for school counselors to offer (but we may refer to).
400
Cutting Off
This is the sometimes necessary technique of politely interrupting a member to re-focus the session.
400
Forming, Storming, Norming, Performing, Adjourning
In the five-stage group model, these are the five (mostly) rhyming terms for each stage.
400
Laissez-fair
This type of group leadership style is characterized by a lack of structure or direction provided by the facilitator, leaving group members with the responsibility to lead the group themselves.
400
Association for Specialists in Group Work (ASGW)
This is the governing body that is a division of the American Counseling Association that oversees the ethical standards of working with a group.
500
Task, Psychoeducational, Counseling, Psychotherapy
These are the four general kinds of groups.
500
Drawing Out
A group facilitator would be using this technique if they were to say, "We haven't heard from you yet, what do you think?"
500
Resistance
This part of the storming stage is best defined as any behaviors or motives that move the group away from areas of discomfort or potential growth.
500
Counter-transference
Diandra has been the facilitator of a counseling group for 3 sessions. One member, Kody, repeatedly triggers many unexplained feelings for Noelle despite not knowing him very well. This is the term for this leader-member phenomenon.
500
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