Reflection Paper #2 Natasha Lewis Group Counseling Antioch University Ann Blake‚ PhD. Catlain Kinsey‚ LMHC‚ NCC January 20‚ 2015 Reflection Paper Two It is essential that leaders possess the knowledge of how groups best function and that they have the skills to intervene in timely and effective ways. Creating a group climate that fosters norms such as openness‚ directness‚ respect‚ and concern for one another will lead to therapeutic interactions among members (Corey‚ Corey‚ & Corey‚ 2010
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Jennifer DeFrancis Group Counseling in a Multicultural Context The guide lines and fundamental for counseling in a multicultural context for group therapy can be found in ASGW. According to ASGW B.8. Group workers practice with broad sensitivity to client differences including but not limited to ethnic‚ gender‚ religious‚ sexual‚ psychological maturity‚ economic class‚ family history‚ physical characteristics or limitations‚ ad geographic locations. Group Works continuously seek information
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Group Therapy‚ a type of psychotherapy‚ designed to help solve emotional or psychological problems using a group of people facing similar issues. In this way‚ the therapist or counselor conducting the session enables his/her clients to benefit from the experiences and views of the participants. This can lead to helpful new perspectives on the issues discussed. In a Group Therapy session‚ participants communicate with people of different sexes‚ ages and cultures. This gives them a sense of belonging
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appropriate to Selena? Many interventions were reviewed and studied . The invention that I felt would work best with Selena would be solution-focused therapy. Solution-focused therapy emerged in the last 20 years as a strategy for working with adults‚ families‚ and minors and has been successful. Hepworth et al. (2013) stated “this approach emphasizes the identification of solution‚ rather than resolving problems” (p.421). Hepworth et al. (2013) also stated that “the goal of this approach is to release their
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Group Characteristics and Interactions The name of the group attended was Hope House for women. The group therapy session was held on Wednesday‚ October 16‚ 2013. The group consisted of 10 members and the person that was leading the session. The majority of women that attended the group were young females‚ most of which were young mothers. There were several older women there as well. Most of the member’s behavior were happy to be there‚ a few didn’t seem as happy. The leader goofed off with
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2013 @ 1143 hrs Group Meeting #1: Norms & Purpose Our therapy groups were assigned today shortly after the viewing of a film in class. My fellow group members consisted of Bryant‚ Earl‚ Stephan and Tracy‚ and our group was designated with the concept of reality therapy. Our group had several tasks to complete prior to class dismissal. The list of things to complete included: appointing a group facilitator‚ developing the group purpose and a minimum of 3 norms for the group‚ setting-up a schedule
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| Confidentiality in Group therapy | | ------------------------------------------------- Over the past several decades the advancement of group modalities in the mental health profession‚ has brought about several potentially challenging ethical and legal scenarios that pertain specifically to confidentiality‚ privileged communication and privacy in group work. The inherent power of therapeutic groups to bring about personal change for members has seen increasing recognition in recent
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observe in the speech therapy room. The speech room was a separate classroom that the kids would get pulled out of class to come to in order to receive therapy. During the hour that I observed the speech language pathologist‚ or SLP‚ saw a total of 5 kids; she had three kids in the first group and two kids in the second. It is a rather small school‚ so Mrs. Ferris‚ the SLP‚ is the only speech language pathologist working in that particular elementary school. In group therapy sessions‚ the SLP cannot
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to be ethical at all times are some of those skills. In regrades to those skills‚ I have the knowledge and aware of those skills‚ of course those skills can always improve no matter how much education or experience one has “under their belt.” Solution Focused Theory is also beneficial skill to understand because a social worker can create goals with the community that is achievable‚ and can
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Thus far‚ over the course of the past several weeks we have discussed four important topics regarding the subject of group therapy. We have reviewed Holistic Treatment‚ Therapeutic Factors‚ problematic clients and group norms. In conjunction with our discourse each student was asked to attend‚ observe‚ and reflect on the skills that were demonstrated during a meeting. This brief overview of the observations made while visiting the New Day AA Club will address the four topics that have been reviewed
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