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Group Counseling
The subtleties of counseling are very difficult to accurately express in written form alone. This is particularly true in the case of group work, where the interpersonal dynamics expand geometrically. A good group counseling textbook, such as the fifth edition of Group Counseling: Concepts and Procedures (2013), can provide a solid foundation, but video demonstrations can illustrate the nuances of the group experience in ways that words alone cannot. To provide just such a video, Kevin A. Fall has filmed a series of segments of a group in which he acts as leader with six participants, over the course of which he demonstrates the stages of a group moving from the first session through to termination. Fall offers regular sections of audio commentary, analysis, and processing on each segment, totaling a 120 minute program. The companion workbook provides additional information to fill in what is not shown on the film and includes exercises, activities, and discussion questions related to each video segment. The video and workbook are designed to work seamlessly with the Berg, Landreth, and Fall text, but they can also be used alongside any other group counseling textbook.
eBook
African Americans? Perception of Mental Health Professions
This study explored African-Americans' perceptions of various mental health professions through the ranking of confidence levels across five case vignettes of varying psychiatric severity. Results indicated that African-Americans viewed psychologists and doctoral level licensed professional counselors with similar levels of confidence and ranked doctoral level licensed professional counselors above master's level counselors in every case example. Congruent with previous studies, the African American sample was confident in counselors' ability to treat less severe cases and less confident in their ability to treat more severe cases.[PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]
Journal Article
Counselor Clinical Training With Client-Actors
Explores how beginning graduate counseling students can gain valuable in vivo counseling experience by working with actors who are trained to serve as clients. The method reduces risk, eliminates many ethical concerns and provides realistic training experiences. Provides useful information to students as they refine counseling techniques and conceptualization skills and learn to manage transference and countertransference issues. (Author/JDM)
Journal Article
Termination
Just as every group has a beginning, every group must end. However, the inevitable end does mean the group will have a healthy termination. Termination is as important as any stage in the development of the group. The response from one of the leaders was, “the people have their last group by having them fill out an evaluation, and once they are finished with the form, they leave.” The leader also continues the role of facilitator at the termination stage to monitor resistance and help guide the group through this final stage of development. Amanda’s perspective is interesting in that it provides an example of the curative factor of altruism; gaining a sense of growth through helping and caring for others. Caroline comes up with an idea, and Dr. Fall facilitates consensus within the group. As with any activity, he explains how to begin, how to proceed, and how to end.
Book Chapter
Managing Conflict
One of the most difficult issues for group leaders to handle is the appropriate management of conflict. Most people are so scared of conflict that it creates an avoidance response that can facilitate stagnation in the group. Unfortunately, relationships need conflict to grow. Disagreement and comfort with differences of opinion, reflect a deepening sense of comfort and safety within the relationship. It is important for group leaders to remember that conflict has the potential to be a growth catapult for the group, not to avoid it but to embrace it by first validating the speaker and then making sure to respond openly and non-defensively. It’s interesting, and common, that Mallory took the issue back into the external relationship and away from the leader. The leader makes sure that the group is not expecting the issues to be completely resolved and that they are seen as a process that will develop as the relationships develop.
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Commitment to Working as a Group
As the group gets settled in the commitment stage, a number of important dynamics fall into place and build on one another. A good experience with conflict resolution will increase the level of trust in the group, which will, in turn, produce deeper self-disclosure, more appropriate confrontation, and better feedback. The group will begin to feel comfortable with the here-and-now processing and begin a consistent pattern of “doing work.” As all of these dynamics come together, the group leader can be confident that the norms support healthy group processing and can adopt the role of the process observer, making sure that the group maintains a consistent movement that produces deeper exploration.
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