self evaluation of group counseling

Group Leadership Skill

5- High Degree of Competence

4- Good

3-Satisfactory

2- Low Degree of Competence

1-Deficit in skill area

0-No opportunity to observe

Active Listening:

Listens well to members, attentive to non-verbal language, able to hear overt and subtle messages, teaches members how to listen and respond.

5

4

3

2

1

0

Reflecting:

Mirrors what members are saying without being mechanical, restatements add meaning to what was said by a member, checks with members to determine accuracy of reflection, able to reflect thoughts and feelings.

5

4

3

2

1

0

Clarifying:

Remarks help others to clarify conflicting feelings, focus is on underlying issues and themes, members get a clearer focus on what they are thinking and feeling, clarification leads to a deeper level of member self-exploration.

5

4

3

2

1

0

Summarizing:

Summarizing gives direction to session, ties together several themes in a group session, attends adequately to summarizing at the end of session, encourages members to summarize what they have heard.

5

4

3

2

1

0

Facilitating:

Helps members to work through barriers to communication, teaches members to focus on themselves, steers members into discussing here and now reactions.

5

4

3

2

1

0

Empathizing:

Tries to understand members, maintains separate identity while empathizing with others, communicate understanding, promotes expression of empathy among the members.

5

4

3

2

1

0

Interpreting:

Interpretations are accurate and well timed, encourages members to provide their own meaning for their behaviors, avoids making inflexible interpretations.

5

4

3

2

1

0

Questioning:

Uses questions to stimulate thoughts and actions, uses what and how questions instead of why, uses open ended questions that lead to deeper self-exploration.

5

4

3

2

1

0

Linking:

Promotes member-to-member interaction, helps members to find a way to connect to one another, orchestrates interactions to several members.

5

4

3

2

1

0

Confronting:

Challenges members to look at some aspects of their behavior, models caring and respectful confrontation, confronts specific behaviors without being judgmental, lets members know how they are personally affected by behavior.

5

4

3

2

1

0

Supporting:

Offers positive reinforcement at appropriate times, recognizes member progress, builds on strengths and gains members make, balances challenges and support.

5

4

3

2

1

0

Blocking:

Intervenes to stop counterproductive behaviors in the group to protect members without attacking members, blocks members behavior that is disruptive, aware when it is necessary for me to protect a member from another member, effectively blocks counterproductive behaviors.

5

4

3

2

1

0

Assessing:

Gets a clear sense of member without labeling them, understands members problems without labeling them, helps members assess problematic behavior, able to detect members who may not be appropriate for a group, creates interventions that fit with assessment.

5

4

3

2

1

0

Modeling :

Demonstrates desired behaviors that can be practiced during and between group sessions, models effective self-disclosure, models caring confrontations.

5

4

3

2

1

0

Suggesting:

Offers information or possibilities for action that can be used by members in making independent decisions, differentiates between suggesting and prescribing, encourages members to take initiative.

5

4

3

2

1

0

Initiating:

Demonstrates active stance in intervening in a group at appropriate times, group session starts in an effective manner, active steps taken to prevent a group from floundering in unproductive ways.

5

4

3

2

1

0

Evaluating:

Appraises the ongoing group process and individual and group dynamics.

5

4

3

2

1

0

Intentionality:

Demonstrates ability to successfully form behaviors and helping strategies to meet the needs of group participants

5

4

3

2

1

0

Terminating:

Creates a climate that encourages members to continue working after session, prepares members for termination, allows adequate time at the end of session for closure, helps members to transfer what they learn in-group to daily life, takes steps to help members integrate learning in group.

5

4

3

2

1

0

Scanning:

Visually scans the room and participants for non-verbal and verbal input.

5

4

3

2

1

0