Personal Narrative: My Personal Experiences Of Being A Co-Leader

Think about the first time you will co-facilitate a treatment group with another group leader who has several years of experience facilitating treatment groups. Perhaps it will be during your practicum or perhaps during your first social work job.
In detail, write about your anxiety or worries about being a co-leader for the first time of a treatment group. My anxiety and worries about being a co-leader for the first time of a treatment group is my lack of experience and I am afraid of making too many mistakes when first starting out. Of course, the anxiety and worries relate to being inexperienced and I feel that if I had more experience when starting out that I would be less anxious. In addition, the idea of evening doing this is a scary process because it is something new and I need to feel prepared and know what I am doing, otherwise, I will be lost in the process. However, since taking this course it has relieved that anxiety to some extent because it is giving me the tools to prepare for working with groups and guidelines to follow for the process and I am realizing that I can do this and with time I will gain experience and not feel lost or unsure of myself. In addition, by working with someone who has years of experience it lessens my worry because I can ask questions and learn from them and
The leader needs to “understand human behavior and human problems, understand therapeutic intervention approaches such as reality therapy, behavior therapy, rational therapy, and feminist interventions they need to understand specialized intervention techniques such as assertiveness training and relaxation techniques, interviewing and counseling, and principles of group dynamics, such as cohesion, task roles, social-emotional roles and the effects of authoritarian versus democratic styles of leadership” (Zastrow, 2015,