My In-Group Analysis

The group the facilitator will be observing is an anger management group that is held Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at Assurance of Hope Institute, Inc. The group consist of twelve men between the ages of twenty-five to forty-five. The group contains ten African American men and two Caucasian men. The group has been meeting three times a week for four months. The group is an open group that is available to all young adult men particularly those suffering from mental health illness. The clients whom attend the group have been either court mandated because of a violent encounter. The group discusses triggers that make one anger, ways to manage your anger, decrease overall intensity and frequency of angry feelings, increase ability to recognize and appropriately express feelings as they occur, identify situations, thoughts, feelings, that trigger anger, angry verbal and/ or behavioral actions and the targets of those actions. The facilitators of the group have explored family background and history to

I agree with you that assessments in a group is essential to understand the functioning of the group members. Also, I believe that it is important to assess individual members as well as the group as a whole. As a group facilitator we must constantly gather pertinent information that will be used to achieve the individuals and groups goals. Assessing the group helps to make the group more cohesive and beneficially to the members. You made a great point that understanding the characteristics of the group members can help improve group participation. I do believe that if a member is not participating does not mean that they are not benefiting from the group. Also, having a member that monopolize the group does not they are

There are lots of people around the U.S who who do not understand the hard struggle of people from other countries. Lots of people make stereotypes about Asian people, Latinos, and people from Arabic countries. People would normally assume that if you are asian, you speak Chinese or Japanese, or that you paint nails, or own a “Chinese food” restaurant.

I always prepare for my groups well in advanced; having my writing utensils, worksheet or movie, and follow up questions helps my stay organized and not get overwhelmed if the group goes a different way then excepted. I believe I have the skills and knowledge of when to end a group for safety reasons because I have had to do it many times at Sheppard Pratt. I have had to stop groups due to patients becoming aggressive towards each other, overall negativity or disrespect for the therapeutic environment and others, and many other reasons. When the group is no longer focused on the task at hand, I try to redirect everyone back to the focus of the group with stimulating questions about the topic or ask the participants how it going. The group dynamic can be a difficult one to understand, but I believe I have a good overall

I always thought that working in groups meant one or two people doing all the work and the rest just goofing off. But in our group each individual had a specific task that they had to perform to make sure the group assignment got done. The group consisted of 9 people who are as followed; Christian Clark, Reilyenne Nahulu, Michel Rivera, Hunter Salavea-Timoteo, Kashalynn Vergara, Paola Guadalupe Gonzalez, Kobee Ledward, Bryje Ahia, and Jeremie Saludares. The analysis covers the importance of an interesting topic, preparation needed, roles I played, things that went well in our group, could've done better, and the two important things about group communication.

An important part of our learning and growing experience must stem from our ability to analyze and reflect upon the groups that we have been members in. This reflection can define our understanding of the weaknesses both in ourselves and in the others within our group; and it can help to shape the way that we act in future groups. Adjusting ourselves to compensate for our weaknesses, based upon an honest and thorough examination of our actions within a group setting, is one of most important thing for any person to do. It is only through this evaluation that we can improve ourselves and our interactions with others. This paper will examine a group that was required to make an important decision about adding a new member

I belong to an informal group of six friends. I am considered to be part of a small group since there are only six members of this group. In this group we each have our sense of belonging and that we feel part of the group. Sometimes people can feel like they do not belong in this group. For example, when just two or three of the six hangout, my other friends feel hurt because they were not invited or that they think we should only hangout when the whole group is there. Within this group we have our own language. For example, we have “inside jokes”, that only the people in the group know. For example, my friends and I love the movie The Heat with Melissa McCarthy and Sandra Bullock, and we will randomly use quotes from that movie and people often don’t know what we are talking about. Another example, is language. My friends and I have our own language that no one else knows about. For example, my friend’s name in my phone is “Oh Whale,” this is because I made a joke about Shamoo one day that she thought was hilarious. Instead of saying oh well, we say “oh whale”, and no one else really understands why I have her name as Oh Whale. As an informal group, we use face-to-face communication and small group discussion when we spend time together. We also use nonverbal communications, such as texting and emoticons. Texting can often lead to the group failing as a whole because text messages can be

I just want to say thank you for the effort, time, and hard work provided to successfully complete this group exercise. Overall, we did an outstanding job as a group and is reflected in ours weekly grades.

The topic the group and I were assigned was if “the DARE program should be in our elementary schools”? My group was on the con side of this topic and I feel overall the debate was a win for our group. When we were first assigned groups and given the topic, I was fine with it. I felt this would give me a chance to discuss something that I went through in my life. Being able to share my story I feel is not on beneficial for me, but also for others. I feel by sharing my story allows me to possibly help others, and let them know if I can overcome and make it through a really dark place I was once at in my life, that others can too. It also it therapeutic for me, by talking about my story helps me continuously heal.

While reading this week’s material, I was familiar with a lot of the concepts due to experience, not academia. It was interesting to read about these topics in an educational manner. One thing I learned about was groupthink. Groupthink is a phenomenon that can occur when groups make decisions that individual members know are poor ones. Groupthink is more likely to occur when there is high group cohesiveness, a strong leader, pressure for conformity, and isolation of the group from outside influences. There is good news though: groupthink can be avoided when group leaders are conscious of it. By group leaders encouraging critical evaluation of all alternatives by every group member and serving as impartial moderators instead of attempting to

Mandated group could be very difficult starting out as a new group leader, I came across this article with helpful hints on how to handle group members who are mandated. Leaders of non voluntary groups need

Your results seem to define you well. You collaborate well and always had a positive attitude. I am glad that you and the coaches came together and made a mutual decision. Sometime compromising is virtuous, but if you feel strongly about your decision stick with it. We shared the same clinical group throughout this program and I noticed how great of a team player you are. I agree collaboration and being assertive are characteristic needed to work through a conflict. All five styles do have advantages and disadvantages it knowing your style can help resolve conflicts. Furthermore, it is pivotal to be aware of your conflict resolution styles, because it can help make a more positive environment in the

The main argument of the group theoretical perspective deals with groups of people and social classes, as well as the conflict that arises between the groups. This conflict occurs because of inequality of wealth and power within a society and creates different groups. In the Graham article, the society was composed of different groups, the white students, who were seen as elite over the few black students. They often did not interact with each other, except for Larry. Larry did this as a way to climb the ladder to achieve a better social status. He created the life he wanted, while always wearing the outfit of his elite peers, associating with the honor, white students. He wanted the best of the best, which is why he chose Princeton, because

Between the nights of the 20th-24th of June, Special Purpose Group ‘Accardo’ spitted up in three groups led by Accardo, Martinsen, and Bauer. Fortunately for Action Andy and Chandler the Fair, their reserve group was already in full motion, thus allowing three subsequent actions to occur. In theory, according to their plans at the time, the two Nightingales believed that dividing the combined into three groups could allow them to achieve three separate goals, which they believe were loosely connected with each other.

We were sitting in class when we were given a sheet of paper and told to fill it out. On the piece of paper of paper that I was given, it asked when we thought we weigh more. I was given two options to pick from, one while walking or two by running. After we made our decision, she asked people for their results. After giving us the results she said that we would come back to this later on.