Gladding (1996) says "groups are an economical and effective means of helping individuals who sahre similar problems and concerns. Counselors who limit their competencies to individual counselling skills limit their options for helping"
- A group is :
“two or more people who share a common definition and evaluation of themselves and behave in accordance with such a definition” (Vaughan & Hogg, 2002, p. 200) - a collection of people who interact with one another, accept rights and obligations as members and who share a common identity.
- A group is two or more people who have come together for the purpose of same designated interaction (Gladding 1996)
Educators have classified groups differently. The Association for specialists in Group Work (ASGW), which is a naitional division of the American Counselling Association (ACA), sets forth training standards for four kinds of group:
(1) Guidance/Psychoeducational
(2) Counselling/Interpersonal Problem Solving,
(3) Psychotherapy/personality reconstuction, and
(4) Task/Work Groups
however, there is few practitioner had also set the group in varios kind of categories, that is (1) Education, (2) Discussion), (3) Task, (4)Growth and experiential, (5) Counselling and Therapy, (6) Support, (7) self help.
Criteria for a group include:
- formal social structure
- face-to-face interaction
- 2 or more persons
- common fate
- common goals
- interdependence
- self-definition as group members
- recognition by others
- Societies can be seen as large groups consisting of a myriad of sub-groups.
Reasons for leading groups:
Groups are more efficient and offer more resources or viewpoints. Groups approach include the feelings of commonality, the opportunity for feedback, the opportunity for vicarious learning by listening and observing others, the approximation to real -life encounters, and the pressure to uphold commitments
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