Questions on Group Therapy

Week 4-

What is the overall importance of group cohesiveness and how do you as a group leader go about fostering group cohesiveness within your groups?  What variables would be present in a cohesive group?

Week5-

-Discuss the following, Do you believe that there are certain attitudes and actions of leaders that impact the level of trust in a group?  Why or why not?  If yes, please list some of these factors. 

-Discuss the impact of leader’s guidelines on members within the group.  Which leader guidelines do you feel are most important and why?

Week 7-

Discuss what is meant by the following: 1. The therapist has two discrete functions in the here-and-now; to steer the group into the here-and-now and to facilitate the self-reflective loop. 2. How does the therapist consolidate learning as a result of the two discrete functions just described?

Week 9-

Compare and contrast the advantages and the disadvantages to the Cognitive Behavioral Approach to group work?

Compare and contrast the advantages and the disadvantages to the Person- Centered Approach to group work?

After doing so explain why you are in favor of either approach and/or why you are not?