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Group Facilitation: Group Dynamics and Progress
Assignment Overview
This assignment addresses Outpatients – Part 2 of the video, Understanding Group Psychotherapy Series, which you watched in this unit’s studies.
By successfully completing this assignment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following competencies and behaviors:
- Competency 1: Demonstrate Ethical and Professional Behavior.
- C1.GP.E: Use supervision and consultation to guide professional judgment and behavior.
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- 3. Identify how a facilitator integrates feedback through consultation.
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- C1.GP.E: Use supervision and consultation to guide professional judgment and behavior.
- Competency 7: Assess Individuals, Families, Groups, Organizations, and Communities.
- C7.GP.A: Collect and organize data, and apply critical thinking to interpret information from clients and constituencies.
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- 2. Describe a facilitator’s group management skills.
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- C7.GP.A: Collect and organize data, and apply critical thinking to interpret information from clients and constituencies.
- Competency 4: Engage in Practice-informed Research and Research-informed Practice.
- C4.GP.C: Use and translate research evidence to inform and improve practice, policy, and service delivery.
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- 5. Discuss the application of best practices or evidence-based techniques of group facilitation.
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- C4.GP.C: Use and translate research evidence to inform and improve practice, policy, and service delivery.
- Competency 6: Engage with Individuals, Families, Groups, Organizations, and Communities.
- C6.GP.A: Apply knowledge of human behavior and the social environment, person-in-environment, and other multidisciplinary theoretical frameworks to engage with clients and constituencies.
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- 2. Describe a facilitator’s group management skills.
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- C6.GP.A: Apply knowledge of human behavior and the social environment, person-in-environment, and other multidisciplinary theoretical frameworks to engage with clients and constituencies.
- Competency 7: Assess Individuals, Families, Groups, Organizations, and Communities.
- C7.GP.B: Apply knowledge of human behavior and the social environment, person-in-environment, and other multidisciplinary theoretical frameworks in the analysis of assessment data from clients and constituencies.
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- 2. Describe a facilitator’s group management skills.
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- C7.GP.B: Apply knowledge of human behavior and the social environment, person-in-environment, and other multidisciplinary theoretical frameworks in the analysis of assessment data from clients and constituencies.
- Competency 8: Intervene with Individuals, Families, Groups, Organizations, and Communities.
- C8.GP.B: Apply knowledge of human behavior and the social environment, person-in-environment, and other multidisciplinary theoretical frameworks in interventions with clients and constituencies.
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- 2. Describe a facilitator’s group management skills.
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- C8.GP.B: Apply knowledge of human behavior and the social environment, person-in-environment, and other multidisciplinary theoretical frameworks in interventions with clients and constituencies.
- Competency 9: Evaluate Practice with Individuals, Families, Groups, Organizations, and Communities.
- C9.GP.B: Apply knowledge of human behavior and the social environment, person-in-environment, and other multidisciplinary theoretical frameworks in the evaluation of outcomes.
- Related Assignment Criterion:
- 2. Describe a facilitator’s group management skills.
- Related Assignment Criterion:
- C9.GP.B: Apply knowledge of human behavior and the social environment, person-in-environment, and other multidisciplinary theoretical frameworks in the evaluation of outcomes.
- Competency 7: Assess Individuals, Families, Groups, Organizations, and Communities.
- C7.GP.C: Develop mutually agreed-on intervention goals and objectives based on the critical assessment of strengths, needs, and challenges within clients and constituencies.
- Related Assignment Criterion:
- 2. Describe a facilitator’s group management skills.
- Related Assignment Criterion:
- C7.GP.C: Develop mutually agreed-on intervention goals and objectives based on the critical assessment of strengths, needs, and challenges within clients and constituencies.
- Competency 8: Intervene with Individuals, Families, Groups, Organizations, and Communities.
- C8.GP.E: Facilitate effective transitions and endings that advance mutually agreed-on goals.
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- 2. Describe a facilitator’s group management skills.
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- C8.GP.E: Facilitate effective transitions and endings that advance mutually agreed-on goals.
Assignment Description
For this assignment, you will focus on group dynamics and group progress.
Assignment Instructions
Follow these parameters to complete the assignment:
- Short summary of the sessions.
- Part 3: Group Dynamics.
- Description of all four observation parameters, noting specific strengths and suggestions for improvement:
- Facilitator ability to recognize group members’ verbal and non-verbal messages.
- Facilitator ability to interpret group members’ meaning and motivation.
- Facilitator ability to manage group members’ participation.
- Facilitator recognition of the cultural roots of expected or accepted forms of communication in the group.
- Description of all four observation parameters, noting specific strengths and suggestions for improvement:
- Part 4: Group Progress.
- Description of all three observation parameters, noting specific strengths and suggestions for improvement:
- Facilitator ability to manage sensitive self-disclosure to the group.
- Facilitator management of issues of vertical versus horizontal disclosure.
- Facilitator management of content versus process.
- Description of all three observation parameters, noting specific strengths and suggestions for improvement:
- Conclusion.
- Explanation of overall facilitator strengths and suggestions.
- Assessment of overall group progress from Part 1 to Part 4.
A good supervisor should be able to back up their observations and suggestions with a body of evidence; as such, you should support your analyses with citations from both peer-reviewed literature and your textbook.
Submission Requirements
- Written communication: Written communication should be free of errors that detract from the overall message.
- APA formatting: Resources and citations should be formatted according to current APA style and formatting standards.
- Number of resources: Minimum of five scholarly sources. All literature cited should be current, with publication dates within the past five years.
- Length of paper: Minimum of three double-spaced pages.
- Font and font size: Times New Roman, 12 point.