Instructions
After you view the Group Counseling With Inmates: San Quentin Prison video in Week 2: Group Leadership SkillsLinks to an external site., draft a 3–4 page paper that analyzes the group facilitators’ performance when addressing issues related to group engagement and in-group authority.
Please structure your paper according to the following outline:
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Group Summary.
- Summarize the group therapy session.
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Group Engagement.
- Explain facilitator use of empathy and interpersonal skills to create a strong group foundation in the first session.
- Cite specific examples.
- Evaluate how facilitators recognize diversity within the group to shape practice at the mezzo level.
- Cite specific examples.
- Explain facilitator handling of co-facilitation to guide professional behavior.
- Cite specific examples.
- Describe facilitator use of self-regulation to monitor personal values, beliefs, and behaviors that limit effectiveness.
- Cite specific examples.
- Explain risks if the facilitator does not monitor personal values, beliefs, and behaviors.
- Explain facilitator use of empathy and interpersonal skills to create a strong group foundation in the first session.
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Group Authority.
- Evaluate oral communication skills demonstrated by the facilitators, including:
- Using effective communication to manage effective transitions.
- Using effective communication to protect confidentiality.
- Analyze facilitators’ overall performance, including:
- Ability to assess group members’ strengths, needs, and challenges.
- Ability to make constructive suggestions for improvement.
- Evaluate how facilitators apply evidence-based methods or interventions to inform practice.
- Cite specific examples.
- Evaluate oral communication skills demonstrated by the facilitators, including:
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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: A minimum of five scholarly sources. All literature cited should be current, with publication dates within the past five years.
- Length of paper: 3–4 typed, double-spaced pages.
- Font and font size: Times New Roman, 12 point.
