Group Practice Flashcards
This model focuses on the individuals’ dysfunction and utilizes the group as a context and means for altering deviant behavior. This approach to group work practice emphasizes its utility in removing the adverse conditions of individuals whose behavior is disapproved by society.
Remedial Model
This group model believes that people and society are interdependent because they have mutual needs. When there is interference with these mutual strivings, it results in conflict.
Reciprocal or Mediating Model
The reciprocal model tends to emphasize:
democratic decision making and interdependence in completing tasks
The remedial model emphasizes:
interactions among members
In this approach, groups are seen as having a degree of independence and autonomy, but the to and from flow between them and their members, between them and their social settings, is crucial to their existence, viability, and achievements:
Developmental Model
The basic concepts of this model are social consciousness, social responsibility, and social change. It is suggested that by participating with others in a group situation, individuals can affect social change.
Social Goals Model
A social worker using this model would NOT modify group governing procedures to encourage participation of all members
Reciprocal Model
In working with chemically dependant groups, the single most important challenge to the worker is how to create a group climate that allows and encourages members to
Speak honestly about their thoughts and feelings
What are the stages of the Tuckman model?
Forming, Storming, Norming, Performing, and Adjourning
In determining the appropriateness of a client for a therapy group, the most important single factor is:
Attitudes toward him/herself, adaptive operations, perception of reality
The best answer includes criteria that incorporates both perception of reality and adaptive operations. To function effectively in a therapy group situation, some ability to function in the “here-and-now” is required. This is particularly exemplified in reality perceptions and adaptive capacity.
In a group with members diagnosed as regressed schizophrenics a social worker would primarily focus on the development of
Structure
Clients with schizophrenia will tend to function better in a structured and predictable environment. Clients are more likely to seek safety and reassurance when their internal processes are chaotic and unpredictable.
The three R’s of reality therapy refer to:
Reality, responsibility, and rightness
Reality, responsibility and rightness represent the core principles of reality therapy. What does each of these concepts refer to?
Reality =
Responsibility =
Rightness =
= actuality
= taking responsibility for one’s own actions
= making value judgements
Hope, universality, corrective recapitulation of the primary family group, catharsis, imparting information, altruism, imitative behavior, interpersonal learning, and group cohesiveness are “curative” or “therapeutic” factors that are associated with therapeutic group experiences. These are identified with:
Yalom’s interpersonal “process” groups model
A social worker in an inpatient psychiatric mental health facility working with higher functioning patients, determines that the most suitable group treatment model is:
Interactional agenda group
uses an agenda go-around approach. It is a model advanced by Yalom as a method of working with higher functioning inpatient groups.
Process groups are associated with Yalom’s “interpersonal” process groups which are used with:
outpatient groups
A social system is best described as:
A network of patterned interactions
A social system refers to the scaffolding arrangements and patterns of relationships based on a wide range of variables–roles, status, power, etc. A network of friendships or a status hierarchy may be characterized as only one kind or type of social system. A collection (better known as a “collectivity”) refers more to demographic categories but says nothing about relationships or patterns which are the essence of social system concepts.
The small group theory that stresses the importance of interactional processes and maintains that individuals in groups behave according to how they interpret situations is known as:
Symbolic interactionism
During the initial meetings of an adolescent group at a recreation center, a worker should reasonably expect that there will be a need to focus on the issue of:
Authority
During the initial stages of group formation, power and control issues often surface as members try to find their place in the group. Thus, it is not simply the worker’s authority that is at stake, but the roles that group members establish, as they seek to assert their autonomy and retain control.
One consequence of failing to develop a contract is to:
Increase the potential for hidden agendas to dominate the group’s activities
A long-standing conceptual framework for studying small group dynamics that has resulted in a great deal of research on variables such as competition and cooperation, uniformity, and activity in small groups is known as:
Field theory (Kurt Lewin)
determining the group’s purpose and how the group will move toward achieving agreed-upon goals is known as:
developing a contract
What are the core concepts identified with cognitive consistency theory in groups?
Thinking through working agreements or contracts, building group consciousness, sharing data, and pinpointing or eliminating obstacles
The most commonly observed characteristic of a scapegoat is his or her:
Inability to deal with aggression
