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| 1. What guidelines
might you offer in the first session to help members get the most from
a group counseling experience? How would you present these guidelines
to the group? |
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| 2. How might you
assist members in creating trust in the leader and among themselves? What
role to you see for the leader in establishing trust during the initial
stage of a group? |
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| 3. Invent a trust
building exercise that might a leader might use during the initial stage
of a group. Give a title to the exercise, identify the objective of the
exercise, describe the exercise, and discuss how you might evaluate the
effects of the exercise. What are some of the advantages and disadvantages
of using a structured exercise to build trust during the initial stage
of a group? |
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| 4. Identify some
resistance behaviors members might exhibit early in the life of a group?
How would you, as a group leader, deal with these behaviors? |
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| 5. Counseling
theorist, Carl Rogers, determined that counselors need to show empathy,
genuineness, and positive regard for their clients. How would you, as
a group leader, try to create these conditions during the initial stage
of a group? |
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6. Why is counseling
theory important to a group leader? Identify a counseling theory (other
than Rogerian) with which you are familiar (e.g., Rational-Emotive,
Behavioral, or Multimodal). How might a leader - - from the theoretical
point of view you chose - - behave differently than a Rogerian leader
during the initial stage of a group?
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| 7.
Which group would you prefer leading, children, adolescents, or adults?
How might leadership strategies differ during the initial stage of a group
for these different age levels? |
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