Break Out Group Communication

In my opinion, group work is a type of cooperative learning that helps people to accomplish a certain task in a faster and more effective manner. Team working also helps to achieve the tasks that are impossible to finish by one individual. However, if people in a group have a lot of conflicts, group work will not be able to achieve as much as we expected. There are many reasons which lead to dissatisfaction in group work such as individualism as well as conflicts in opinion and time.

This paper is a response to a video discussing the issues of confidentiality, privilege, reporting, and duty to warn. This paper looks at these issues and their explanations in the American Counseling Association Code of Ethics as well as the Georgia State Board of Professional Counselor’s ethical guidelines and provides a commentary on the laws. It was found that these issues are not always black and white, but there is some debate on these issues. Confidentiality is both an ethical and a legal responsibility yet there are often times when the ethical demands clash with the legal demands. This paper explores some of those crashes and explains what I have learned from the video and the professional and stage guidelines concerning confidentiality and its implications and how I will apply what I have learned into future practice.

The Comprehensive School Counseling Program Notebook which follows the ASCA National Model third edition was created in School Counseling Programs. This notebook is divided into four components as directed by the comprehensive school counseling program: foundation, delivery, management, and accountability. The Foundation section includes my core beliefs, my vision, my mission, rationale, description, and goals of the program at Mountain Home Junior School. Delivery, Management, and Accountability (AR 1.2).

This email serves to recap the alarming telephone conversations concerning CSUSB Graduate Counselors, Jayne Archibald and Desiree Jaramillo, who are currently co-facliating a small group at Serrano Middle School. On Friday, February, 26th, Ms. Summers, Program Specialist at Serrano Middle School, called me at approximately to reveal some disturbing information that was disclosed to her in conversations with Jayne and Desiree. Incidents pertaining to another CSUSB Graduate Counselor during the fall quarter, Ms. Summers stated that Jayne and Desiree have been disclosing information all quarter pertaining to the incidents involving another CSUSB Graduate Counselor during the fall quarter. The most recent conversation on Friday, February 26th

One incident in where I notice supportive group communication climate was when Olivia, Amanda, Nick and Fin needed to find Vicki. Once they found her they realized she was being pimped and they collaborated in how they were going to get Tre, the pimp. The way that this affected the group during its communication decision-making was by being able to effectively communicate and effectively come up with solution to their problem. On the other hand, one incident where I notice defensive group communication climate was when Fin and the other detectives were trying to interrogate Tre and Vicki. Tre and Vicki were both not having a open communication and most definitely not trusting no one. The way that this affected the group during its communication

Most counselors do not always tell the parents about situations that the student face while in school. Many students feel more comfortable with telling counselors about their problems than their parents because they fear that their parent may discipline them or not trust them, or so forth. Some strategies may not work for certain students so counselors should continue a follow up with the student and also come to an agreement with the parent about the child's issue and the best method in trying to prevent the student from harming themselves in a case where they may choose to and also the parents can also monitor the child without the pressure that the child may have been concerned about. It is important that schools are aware of social issues that occur not only in school but outside of school as well because they can and mostly likely will be brought into the school. For existences, public schools began to crack down on drug use inside the school, although what the students do outside of school, they do not really have control

A school counselor’s role is vital in many schools across America. Many students see their counselor, to work on any emotional stressors, academic changes and challenges. This may include, interventions, group therapy and changes in class schedule, but sometimes with all the implementations given, students do not succeed in school. Perhaps one needs to take a closer look at the programs being implemented and its success rate. In addition, a counselor should guide itself using the ASCA (American School Counselor Association) to provide evidence based practices in schools.

The first item is to build trust among students, parents and school staff, so that they feel comfortable coming to the counselors to address their issues or concerns. While confidentiality could be a challenge working with minors, it should be kept as much as possible. They also need to feel that when they meet with the school counselors that he or she has the individual’s best interest in mind.

Counselor inquired if client improve on baby talk and the words “ I don’t know”.

Before discussing leadership styles and their affects on group communications of a specific company, it is important to first identify the organizational structure of that company. Different organizational structures may lend themselves more toward specific leadership styles then others. “A company’s individual organizational structure is a formal composition of task reporting relationships that allows the company to control, coordinate, and motivate employees so a common goal can be achieved” (George & Jones, 2005, p. 505). Coordinate in this context refers to the communication efforts made between upper management, middle management, site management, and

On October 13, 1972, flight 571 crashed in the Andes carrying a rugby team along with its family and friends. Out of the 45 passengers and crew members, there was a total of 29 fatalities. Over the course of 72 days, people either died due to weather, injury or an avalanche leaving only 16 survivors. This group of people had to turn to desperate measures including cannibalism in order to survive. Their will to survive and strength to motivate each other is one many conclude as a miracle. How one may ask a group of people survived in the Andes for 72 days? The answer is communication. The film Alive (1993) directed by Frank Marshall recalls the events that happened on those mountains in 1972. In this event, the goal was to survive no matter what it takes. Through group communication, group development, and leadership, we can further observe that this small group successfully achieved their goal.

For the purposes of being in line with my legal and ethical responsibilities, I would construct my policy for sharing information with students by FERPA guidelines. While I would allow the release of information in following FERPA regulations, I would strongly advise for counselors to still be mindful when releasing information. I would suggest that they only release information with their upmost discretion and for circumstances where not only FERPA permits, but that it also seems to be of benefit for the student. As many of the guidelines state, the schools “may” release information in certain circumstances, but they do not have to. This is what I would relay to my counselors.

Impacting the lives of children must be approached from a team perspective to address all aspects of the child’s environment and relationships including caregivers, peers, teachers and school. Behavioral Counselors must collaborate with school counselors to understand the impact that school and teachers have on the child’s life. To appreciate School Counseling a review of the specialization’s history is important. School Counselors have evolved from vocational guidance and job-orientated counseling following World War I to educational guidance following World War II due to the passing of the GI bill as veterans were given right to education counseling (Minkoff, 1985). Today School Counselors support a wide variety of needs from a wide variety of student populations including but not limited to depression, college guidance, anxiety, oppositional disorder and developmentally delayed due to change in access to mental health care being more privatized (Lockhart & Keys, 1998). Lockhart states that because of the restructuring in access to care school counselors have been pushed to handle a wider variety of needs within mental health (1998).

Successful communication is particularly crucial when forming supportive and respectful relationships with our students and their respective parents. During my practical experience I noticed a number of collaborative initiatives that were implemented

Effective group communications come in forms of verbal and non-verbal techniques. Essential parts of the entire group’s contribution are that the group contains full participating members, the group is diverse, and that the diversity is recognized and respected (Hartley, 1997). In the videos viewed, three were evaluated on the effective and ineffective communication skills of the participants and suggestions made on how they could improve. The videos are titled, “Planning a Playground”, “Helping Annie”, and "The Politics of Sociology.