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What is a support group?
Distinguished from other groups through the use of supportive intervention strategies by their primary goals: to foster mutual aid, to help members cope with stressful life events, and to revitalize and enhance members' coping abilities so they can effectively adapt to and cope with stressful life events.
What is the free floating pattern?
All members take responsibility for communicating, taking into consideration their ability to contribute meaningfully to the particular topic
What is a task group?
Any group which the overriding purpose is to accomplish a goal that is neither intrinsically nor immediately linked to the needs of the members of the group. The primary purpose is to accomplish a goal that will affect more than just the members of the group.
What is systems theory?
Attempts to understand the group as a system of interacting elements.
What are cabinets?
Designed to provide advice and expertise about policy issues to chief executive officers or other high level admin
What is the remedial model of group work?
Focuses on restoring or rehabilitating individuals by helping them change their behavior.
What is the social goals model?
Focuses on socializing members to democratic societal values. It is used in Girl Scouts and Jewish community centers.
What is learning theory?
Focuses on the behavior of individuals, rather than on the behavior of the group. Helps members make desired changes by focusing on cognitive behavioral approaches.
What is the definition of appropriate conduct of meetings?
Following the code of ethics when conducting group meetings that allow members' individual values to be considered and the worker considers each members' needs, wants, and wishes instead of pushing their own agenda.
What is Psychodynamic theory?
Follows Freud's ideology on insight, ego, and defense mechanisms. The group leader represents the "ego ideal."
What are the four group classifications?
Formed, natural, task, and treatment
What is the definition of correction?
Helping members who are having problems with social laws or mores
What is a therapy group?
Helps members change their behavior, cope with personal problems, or rehabilitate themselves after physical, psychological, or social trauma.
What is an education group?
Helps members learn new information and skills.
What is a socialization group?
Helps members learn social skills and socially accepted behavior patterns so they can function effectively in the community.
What is social integration ?
How members fit together and are accepted in a group. Promoted by norms, roles, and hierarchies
What are the four group interaction patterns?
Maypole, hot seat, round robin, and free floating
What are the three parts of the communication process?
Meaning, message, and understanding.
What are treatment conferences?
Meet for the purpose of developing, monitoring, and coordinating plans for a particular client or client system.
What are the three components of cohesion?
Member to member attraction, sense of unity and community, and a sense of teamwork
What is round robin?
Members take turns talkinh
Which decade did group work popularity begin to decline?
1960's
What is the definition of problem solving?
Helping members resolve complex issues and concerns
Example of an educational group:
A group for prospective foster parents sponsored by a child welfare agency.
What is an example of a support group?
A group of people diagnosed with cancer , and their families, disussing how to cope with the disease and its effects.
Example of a social action group:
A group of social workers longing for increased funding for social services.
Example of a therapy group:
A group sponsored by a health association for ppl who want to stop smoking.
What is a treatment group?
A group whose major purpose is to meet members socio-emotional needs. Includes members needs for mutual aid, support, education, therapy, growth, and socialization.
What is an example of a socialization group?
A social club for outpatients of a psychiatric center. Or, a parents without partners group that includes picnics, dances, and other social activities
What is an example of a growth group?
A values-clarification group for married couples.
Example of delegate councils:
A yearly meeting of reps from family services agencies throughout the county
Example of a self help group:
Alcoholics Anonymous, gamblers anonymous, and make today count (group for cancer survivors)
What are the three stages of group development?
Beginning, middle, end
What is informed consent?
Being clear with members about the purpose and goals of the group; giving them info about screening and termination procedures; the potential risks of participation; the cost, timing, and duration of sessions; whether participation is voluntary; what is expected of them; and procedures to ensure confidentiality.
What is the Board of directors?
Body that governs an agency
What are program activities groups' uses to attain goals?
Camping, singing, arts and crafts, and group discussion
What are the three categories of task groups?
Client needs, organizational needs, and community needs
What are the four dimensions of group dynamics?
Communication and interaction patters, cohesion, social integration and influence, and group culture.
What are delegate councils?
Composed for the purpose of facilitating interagency communication and cooperation, studying community wide social issues, engaging in collective social action, and governing large organizations.
What are constructive, narrative, and empowerment theories?
Constructive / narrative: focuses on how members create and maintain their realities through life stories and subjective experiences. Empowerment: focuses on members coping skills and resiliency, rather than their problems and deficits.
What is a transformational process?
Effective leaders motivate members, build their confidence and trust in one another, and unite them in common beliefs, values, and goals.
What is the Democratic American value?
Emphasizes equality and participation, including men and women's rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
What is the social exchange theory?
Emphasizes group member interactions and exchanges to provide approval for all members.
What is the Puritan ethic?
Emphasizes men's and women's responsibility for themselves and the central role of work in a moral life.
What is the Judeo- Christian doctrine?
Emphasizes the dignity and worth of people and people's responsibility for their neighbor.
What is the reciprocal model?
Emphasizes the relationship that exists between group members and society. Members both influence and are influenced by their environment. The worker acts as a mediator. "Give and take" mentality.
What is Social Darwinism?
Emphasizes the survival of the strongest and the fittest in a long-term evolutionary process.
What is status?
Evaluation and ranking of each members position in the group relative to all other members. Low status members are least likely to conform to group norms. High status members perform many valued services for the group and conform to group norms easier.
What are the classes of leadership skills?
Facilitating processes, data gathering/assessment, and action
What are teams?
Group of staff members working together to implement a care plan for a designated group of clients.
What are the 5 components of the Interactional Leadership Model?
Group purpose, type of group, group environment, group as a whole, maintainance, and the leader
What is a difference between case work and group work?
Group workers refer to group participants as members, rather than clients.
What is a natural group?
Groups that come together spontaneously, based on naturally occurring events, interpersonal attraction, or the mutually perceived needs of members. Includes family groups, peer groups, gangs, and cliques.
What is a formed group?
Groups that come together through some outside influence or intervention. They usually have some sponsorship or affiliation, and are convened for a particular purpose.
What is the definition of social action?
Helping members change their environment
What is the definition of developing social values?
Helping members develop a humanistic approach to living
what is the definition of prevention?
Helping members develop and function at an optimal level and helping them prepare for events that are likely to occur
What is the definition of habilitation?
Helping members grow and develop
What is the definition of socialization?
Helping members learn how to get along with others and do what is socially acceptable
What is data gathering and assessment?
Identifying and describing thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. Requesting info, questioning, proving. Analyzing information. Etc.
What are the three ethical practices with groups?
Informed consent, leader competence and training, and appropriate conduct of meetings.
What are facilitating processes?
Involving group members, attending to others, expressing self, responding to others, clarifying content, etc.
What are the four American values?
Judeo-Christian doctrine, Democracy, Puritan ethic, and Social Darwinism.
What the maypole pattern?
Leader is central figure and communication occurs from leader to member and from member to leader
What is a reciprocal process,?
Leaders and members influence each other
What is a transactional process,?
Leaders and members work together in exchanging ideas, skills, and effort.
What is an adaptive process?
Leaders help members change course and adapt to new situations to attain personal and group goals
What is the cooperative process?
Leaders use their power to gain cooperation and mutual respect of members in shared goal-seeking activities.
What is a Growth group?
Offer opportunities for members to become aware of , expand, and change their thoughts, feelings, and behaviors regarding themselves and others.
What are staff development groups?
Purpose is to improve services to clients by developing, updating, and refreshing workers skills.
What are the eight group work purposes?
Rehabilitation, correction, prevention, problem solving, habilitation, socialization, social action, and developing social values.
What are the four key group work values?
Respect and dignity, empowerment, solidarity and mutual aid, and understanding diversity.
What is the definition of rehabilitation ?
Restoring members to their former level of functioning
What is selective perception?
Screening of messages so they are congruent with one's belief system
What are roles?
Shared expectations about the functions of individuals in the group. They allow for the division of labor and the appropriate use of power. They continue to emerge and evolve as group work changes over time.
What are norms?
Shared expectations and beliefs about ways to act in social situations. Stabilize and regulate group behavior. Preferred and accepted behavior in the group.
What are the three models of group work practice?
Social goals, reciprocal, and remedial models
What are the six types of treatment groups?
Support, growth, socialization, education, therapy, and self help
What is action?
Supporting, giving advice or suggestions, disclosure, resolving conflicts, etc.
What are the six influential theories?
Systems, learning, social exchange, psychodynamic, field theory, constructivist empowerment and narrative
What are the nine types of task groups?
Teams, committees, cabinets, staff development, board of directors, coalitions, treatment conferences, social action groups, and delegate councils
What is the definition of understanding diversity?
The ability of groups to help enrich members by acquainting them with people from other backgrounds. Members' respect and appreciation for each other grow as their relationship deepens over the life of a group. One powerful aspect of group work is that it helps to decrease ignorance, misunderstanding, and prejudice among people from diverse backgrounds.
What are group dynamics?
The forces that result from the interactions of groups members. Influence the behavior of both individuals group members and the group as a whole.
What is a self help group?
The key characteristics of these groups is that they are led by members who share the problem experienced by the other members of the group.
What are committees?
The most common type of task group. Their task is to accomplish a charge or mandate that is delegated from a higher authority.
What is attributed power?
The perception among group members or others outside the group of the worker's ability to lead
What is the definition of empowerment?
The power of the group to help members feel good about themselves and to enable them to use their abilities to help themselves and to make a differences in their communities.
What is leadership?
The process of guiding the development of the group and its members. Not static but reciprocal, transactional, transformational, cooperative, and adaptive process
What is the definition of solidarity and mutual aid?
The promise of relationship to help members grow and develop, to help them heal, to satisfy their needs for human contact and connectedness, and to promote a sense of unity and community.
What is the definition of respect and dignity?
The worth and dignity of all group members no matter how devalued or stigmatized they may be to society. Valuing members' contributions to the life of the group and adhering to all aspects of the NASW code of ethics.
What is the hot seat pattern?
There is an extended back and forth between the leader and one member as the other members watch
What are social action groups?
They empower members to engage in collective action and planned change efforts to alter some aspect of their social or physical environment.
What is group culture ?
Values, beliefs, customs, and traditions held in common by group members.
What are the three types of communication?
Verbal, nonverbal, and written
What is Field theory?
Views the group as an evolving entity of opposing forces that act to hold members in the group and to move the group along in its quest for goal achievement.
What are coalitions?
When organizations, social action groups, or individuals come together to share resources and expertise.
What is the definition of leader competence and training?
Workers have the proper training, education, and experience to lead a particular group.
What is actual power?
Workers' resources for changing conditions inside and outside the group depending on the sources of the workers influence.
What are values?
beliefs that delineate preferences about how one ought to behave. Affects members' reactions to workers' efforts to influence the methods used to accomplish group and individual goals.
What is Group Work?
series of activities carried out by the worker during the life of a group. The deliberate intervention strategies and group processes to accomplish individual, group, and community goals using the value base and ethical practice principles of the social work profession. Goal directed activity with small treatment and task groups aimed at meeting socio-emotional needs and accomplishing tasks.
