Group Development: Discuss how you would facilitate the group’s development
through the various stages. Give specific examples of techniques / strategies for each
stage (Toseland and Rivas Ch 3).
Group Development:
What norms do you hope to establish in the group?Discuss how you would facilitate the group’s development through the various stages.
Give specific examples of techniques / strategies for each stage. In addition, please
specifically address the following considerations: How will you engage the diverse clients
you will serve in this group setting and ensure that clients engage with one another? How will you work to ensure that positive engagement with you and among group
members is sustained throughout the group?
How will you promote participants’ confidence in their safety and a sense of mutual
respect?
How will you assess the needs of the group? How will you continue to engage in
assessment as the group proceeds?
How will you be able to apply what you have learned about Human Behavior and the
Social Environment to the development and management of this group?
How will you apply what you have learned from your review of the literature to the
development and management of this group?
Describe, in greater detail, interventions that you have in mind for this group. Relate your
intervention plan to the type of group you have planned (e.g. for a treatment group, what
type of treatment model will you rely on?
For a psychoeducational group, will you use a
formal curriculum, or will you develop one?).
How will you evaluate the success of this group?
Describe qualitative and/or quantitative
methods for evaluating your practice effectiveness in this setting.
How does theory about Human Behavior and the Social Environment and/or the
literature you studied contribute to your thinking about evaluating the group? Specifically,
how do theory and evidence help you decide when the group has met its goals?
What personal feelings / affective reactions do you anticipate might arise during a group
such as this one?
How might these evolve during the process of engaging with group
members, assessing the needs of the group, supporting the intervention, and evaluating
the impacts of the group?
How will you manage these reactions?
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What kind of supervision and inter-disciplinary consultation might you seek as you
engage with, assess, provide intervention to, and evaluate outcomes of the group?
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Brief Conclusions: End the paper with a summary and conclusion. Each student may
include one paragraph of what they gained from this project.
