Terms Flashcards
Disclosure Vs Anonymity
- Protect by remaining hidden rather than revealing themselves through self-disclosure.
- Through self-disclosure that others come to know them.
Honesty Vs Superficiality
- Being able to express what they really think and feel rather than what they think others need to hear in order to accept them
- Honesty with caring.
- Honesty does not mean saying anything and everything to another person.
Spontaneity Vs Control
- Rehearse out loud.
- Foster spontaneity - It is okay to say and do many of the things that members have been preventing themselves from doing.
- Stop endlessly rehearsing everything.
Acceptance Vs Rejection
- Explore the basis of the fear of rejection
Challenge unrealistic fears - Identify with the help of the group, ways in which they set themselves up to be rejected
Cohesion vs Fragmentation
- Cohesion comes from working with meaningful, painful reality as well as from intimately sharing humorous and joyous moments.
- Letting themselves be known by others
Homework
- Maximizes what is learned in the group
- Means of translating learning to different situations in daily life.
Challenges members to practice actual skills they are learning in group. - Homework is designed collaboratively with group members.
Self-Disclosure
- Able to deepen their self-knowledge through disclosing themselves to others
- Develop a richer, more integrated picture of who they are
- Better able to recognize the impact they have on otherwise
- Keeping themselves unknown means they are likely to be misunderstood
Feedback
- One of the most important ways of learning
Given honestly and with sensitivity - Encourages members to accept responsibility for the outcomes of the group and for changing the style in which they relate to others
- Give concise feedback that is clear and straight forward
- Share how members affect you
- Specific here-and-now feedback that pertains to behaviour
- Must be well timed and given in a non-judgmental way
- The most meaningful feedback deals with the relationship between the sender and the receiver
- Focus on strengths and how people might be blocking them
Power
- The sense that one has the resources necessary to direct the course of one’s own life.
- Leaders must understand and appreciate the context surrounding the lack of power for some members.
Evaluation
- Evaluation is a basic aspect of any group experience
- Evaluation is an ongoing process that tracks the progress of individual members and the group as a whole
- Methods used include rating scales, standardized instruments, questionnaires, and follow-up interviews
Follow-Up
- Build follow-up group sessions into the scheduled meetings
- Members tend to be more motivated when knowing they will evaluate their progress
- Members can share difficulties they have encountered since leaving the group
- Provides an avenue to express such thoughts and feelings about their group experience
- Send a brief questionnaire or contact the member via a secure online live video chat program
Giving Advice
Dependency
Offering Pseudosupport
Members Becoming Assistant Leaders
Giving Advice
Interrupts the expression of thoughts and feelings and increases dependency.
Tells member they are not capable of finding their own way and creates dependency.
Dependency
Leaders may foster member dependency
Member’s cultural background must be considered
What may be viewed by another culture as a manifestation of overly dependent behaviour might be viewed by another culture as an appropriate behavioural norm
Offering Pseudosupport
Soothing wounds, lessening pain, keeping people cheerful
What is the meaning this has for person who offers it
Members Becoming Assistant Leaders
Distance themselves through superiority by aligning themselves with leaders
Silence and Lack of Participation
Monopolistic Behaviour
Storytelling
Questioning
Silence and Lack of Participation
Patterns of silence may hide a problem
Monopolistic Behaviour
Essential to gently challenge the person to look at the effects of their behaviour
Storytelling
Differentiate between storytelling and disclosure
Questioning
Educate about the function of questions
Intrude on others
Keep questioner’s feelings about others disguised
Practice making direct statements
Hostile Behaviour
Acting Superior
Socializing
Intellectualizing
Hostile Behaviour
Extremely hostile people are not appropriate for groups
Acting Superior
Moralistic, judging, critical of others
Unable to identify any pressing problems in their lives
Socializing
Have an open discussion about the ways out-of-group relationships can be an asset
Discuss what types of problems can arise
Intellectualizing
Used as a defense against experiencing emotions
Need to decide if intellectualizing is a problem for them
future projection
future projection, often used in psychodrama, is designed to help group members express and clarify concerns they have about their future. Rather than merely talking about what they would like in their lives at some future time, members are invited to create this future time in the here and now.
For example, they might role-play with another group member a conversation they hope to have with a loved one. By enacting this future time and place with selected people and by bringing this event into the present, they are able get a new perspective on how best to get what they want.
