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Task Groups
This type of group that emphasizes successfully completing identified goals.
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Linking
Name the skill that involves connecting specific group members to show them they share similar thoughts, emotions, or issues.
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Adjourning
In the five-stage model of groups, this is the name of the last stage, which addresses termination.
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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.
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15-20 minutes
This is the appropriate amount of time to limit sessions to for groups involving younger elementary level students (K-2).
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Psychoeducational
This type of group involves teaching content and/or specific skills.
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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.
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Pre-screening
This practice is how we ensure that potential members' needs, dispositions, and cognitive abilities are appropriately served by group counseling.
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Catharsis
Described as a “purging of emotion,” this is the intense outward emotional expression of feeling that can take place during group sessions.
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Immediacy
This technique can involve calling attention to a group members' nonverbal communication (body language, facial expressions, and tone of voice).
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Open-Ended
This type of group allows members to join and leave at any time.
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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.
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Process/Processing/Discussion
As groups develop, typically less time is spent on content material, and more time is focused on this instead.
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Monopolizer
This is the term for a type of group member who makes excessive verbal contributions, preventing equal participation by other group members.
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Adlerian
A group structured under this theoretical orientation would stress that group member should become more socially oriented, personally integrated, and goal directed.
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Psychotherapy
This type of group is long-term, intensive, and would be inappropriate for school counselors to offer (but we may refer to).
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Cutting Off
This is the sometimes necessary technique of politely interrupting a member to re-focus the session.
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Forming, Storming, Norming, Performing, Adjourning
In the five-stage group model, these are the five (mostly) rhyming terms for each stage.
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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.
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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.
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Task, Psychoeducational, Counseling, Psychotherapy
These are the four general kinds of groups.
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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?"
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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.
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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.
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Extremely!!! I'm going to miss this class so much!
This is how fantastic, meaningful, and fun my experience has been teaching you all this summer.
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