This assignment continues the scenario from the Week 2 assignment, where you imagine you are a student in a special seminar on the formation and ongoing dynamics of a therapy group. As part of the seminar, you participate in an observation activity. While playing the role of the supervisor, you observe and analyze the facilitators’ performance in the video recording of a group therapy session. For the previous assignment, you focused your comments, questions, and suggestions on how the facilitators handled group engagement and in-group authority. For this assignment, you will create a presentation that focuses your analysis on how the facilitators handle issues related to group dynamics and group process.
Review the Group Counseling With Inmates: San Quentin Prison video in this week’s reading list:
https://video.alexanderstreet.com/embed/group-counseling-with-inmates-san-quentin-prison
After you view the video, create a presentation (5–7 slides) that analyzes the group facilitators’ performance when addressing issues related to group dynamics and group process.
Please structure your presentation according to the following outline:
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Group Summary.
- Summarize the group therapy session.
- Use the summary from your Week 2 assignment as a starting point.
- Revise according to instructor feedback and new observations from your most recent viewing of the group therapy session.
- Summarize the group therapy session.
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Group Dynamics.
- Evaluate how facilitators assess group members’ verbal and nonverbal messages.
- Note specific strengths and suggestions for improvement.
- Evaluate how facilitators utilize supervision and consultation to guide professional judgment and behavior in the group setting.
- Note specific strengths and suggestions for improvement.
- Evaluate how facilitators apply knowledge of human behavior in the social environment to engage with clients.
- Note specific strengths and suggestions for improvement.
- Evaluate how facilitators assess group members’ verbal and nonverbal messages.
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Group Process.
- Evaluate how facilitators manage sensitive self-disclosure to the group.
- Note specific strengths and suggestions for improvement.
- Evaluate how facilitators apply evidence-based methods or interventions to inform group facilitation.
- Note specific strengths and suggestions for improvement.
- Evaluate how facilitators manage sensitive self-disclosure to the group.
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Conclusion.
- Evaluate facilitators’ overall performance, including the ability to:
- Manage group process and transitions.
- Develop mutually agreed-upon goals.
- Assess the strengths, needs, and challenges of the client population.
- Present suggestions for improvement.
- Evaluate facilitators’ overall performance, including the ability to:
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Professional Communication.
- Communicate in a manner that is scholarly, professional, and consistent with expectations for members of the social work profession.
- Adhere to the rules of grammar, usage, and mechanics.
- Support main points, assertions, arguments, conclusions, or recommendations with relevant and credible evidence.
- Apply current APA style standards, including paper format, in-text citations, and the references list.
- Communicate in a manner that is scholarly, professional, and consistent with expectations for members of the social work profession.
Note: Good supervisors contextualize their observations and suggestions with concrete evidence. Support your analyses and recommendations with citations from peer-reviewed literature and your textbook. Remember to format references according to current APA style.
Additional Requirements
Your assignment should also meet the following requirements:
- Written communication: Written communication should be scholarly, professional, and consistent with expectations for members of the social work profession.
- APA formatting: Resources and citations should be formatted according to current APA style and formatting standards. Use Academic WriterLinks to an external site. for guidance in citing sources in proper APA style. See the Writing CenterLinks to an external site. for more APA resources specific to your degree level.
- Number of resources: Include a minimum of seven scholarly sources. All literature cited should be current, with publication dates within the past five years.
- Length of presentation: 5–7 slide presentations, not counting title slide.
- Font and font size: Times New Roman, 12 point.
