Participation In A Group Reflection

Through leading our first group session about self-care, Amanda and I gained valuable group facilitation experience that was helpful in leading our second session. Our second group facilitation had many strengths, including the fact that we moved closer to the working stage and helped members to explore guilt related to self-care, a common theme in the group. However, although the group went well overall, there are still ways that we could improve, such as using certain techniques to “go deeper” and better managing time.

I learned two significant things about group counseling in this course. The first thing that I learned is the importance of setting up a treatment plan. The intention is to follow the client from their entrance into the program until the client is discharged. In this process the clients’ problems are identified through various assessments and as each problem is addressed, it is checked off of the list. Once all of the problems are checked off of the list, the client is considered as having completed the plan. This plan is especially important because it evokes thoughtful conversation between the client and the counselor and is the best method to gain information from the client regarding the help they want to receive. The second most significant thing that I learned about group counseling is how to design a group from start to finish. From pre group design, planning the goals of the group and determining the members to setting up the environment and structuring the sessions, each step adds its own important components to designing group counseling.

During this group session, the patients were asked to identify common relapse triggers and verbalize ways in which they can avoid their triggers. The patients were provided with a handout on triggers and educated on alternative methods to avoid their triggers.The patient was oriented x 3. The patient reported that feelings of depression and being bored has caused him in the past to relapse. He shared that he is ready to be clean and is aware of his triggers. He further shared that he goals are to engage in outside activities that can help occupy his timeThe patient was oriented x 3. He actively participated in the group discussion. The patient identified his triggers as his relationship with his family members. Throughout the session, the patient

At first, I was excited about group this week. I had been thinking about the topic of boundaries earlier that morning. But once the leader declared we would only discuss boundaries as relevant to Social Work I honestly lost my excitement. Actually I do not believe it was solely because of the topic but rather I think it was how the leader presented it. I struggled for the first 10 minutes to have anything to add. I believe it was because I did not have answers to the leader’s questions and felt as if I was being asked questions for a class test. Therefore, this week I mostly listened and interjected when I believed I had an answer to contribute. Maybe I felt I did not have much to share, since I am still new to Social Work and my jobs before

The 12-step group I observed is Sunrise Semester, an alcohol-anonymous group open to women. The group meeting was held in a spacious room in a Catholic church. The group leader sat in the front, surrounded by the group members. The group had a relatively large size, with nearly 20 people ranged from the middle age to the elderly. Some of the members just started being sober while some older members have been sober for more than 20 years. Most of the group members are Caucasians and the rest was Hispanics, Indians and Philippines. The atmosphere of the group meeting was warm, friendly and engaging. The meeting started from some housekeeping announcements and the sharing of the group leader, who is not a mental health professional but has been

Beyond sharpening my social awareness, Intergroup Dialogue forced me to consider that my perception of the world is not the only one. For, as previously mentioned, I did not find that conflicting viewpoints were the most defining aspect of the IGD experience. Upon reflection, however, it is probable that I felt this way because the majority of the opinions expressed were similar to my own. The class was largely comprised of people of color who came off as mostly liberal in their political and social views. For myself, this is the “norm.” For someone else, however, this may have been completely different as compared to what they are used to. As an example, there was a time in class when Sarah, a European woman who was not born in the United States, observed to the group that her opinions “are clearly a lot different” than everyone else’s. This statement occurred after what I would personally deem the most palpable demonstration of difference within the course: the debate over whether public displays of Confederate symbols should be permanently removed and banned. This dissimilarity in perspective arose during “Four Corners,” an activity wherein students individually move to different corners of the room in order to demonstrate the extent to which they agree or disagree with statements read aloud by facilitators. When an opinion stating that the Confederate flag should be banned was read, nearly every student moved to the “agree” half of the room. However, Sarah

The team should then have frequent meetings to assess the team’s strengths and weakness; and how they can continue to utilize their strengths and strive to improve their weaknesses. The team should discuss a plan, as a whole, that can be used to achieve their goal, furthermore a plan for each individual to work towards the team goal or goals should also be established. A discussion about acceptable behaviors and actions needs to be addressed so members are aware of their responsibilities. Systematic evaluation should be put in place by the team to be able to review goals, see if they were reached, and how the plans to reach the goal were involved and if the plans they worked. I plan on teaching these skills by giving a power point presentation on the importance of cohesion and the effects it can have on a team’s performance, along with a guideline that helps them improve cohesion. I will give them areas to focus on improving, along with behaviors to avoid. Establishing an effective team goal and an evaluation of said goal will be included in the presentation. The reason for doing a presentation on cohesion is that the team needs to be aware of the impact cohesion has on their performance and how to improve their cohesion in order to be

Teamwork is the joint action by a group to complete a given task. This was displayed by group 20 as each member contributed their individual knowledge and skills towards the team as well as the course objective.

Everyone had a chance to share, and I believe that those that did share their thoughts felt like they were truly heard. I really enjoyed this because as a student sitting in a classroom you often are not privy to what is going on in another student’s mind or heart. Maybe the struggle someone brought up was similar to others in the group, or maybe that confusing article confused others too. The act of doing this, and sharing our perspectives with each other, connected us as a group to this process. It was in these classes that I worked exceptionally well in my group projects. Perhaps it was because of the pre-established connection that opened the door to a trusting relationship. Communication was effortless, and we worked together on our projects rather than dividing and doing individual

In our opinion, the $34 credit card fee charged by Westpac when Alan used his MasterCard to pay his 2016 income tax owing to the ATO as per 2016 income tax assessment notice is not deductible. As stated in ATO Interpretative Decision 2010/160: Income Tax Deductibility of card payment fee incurred in paying income tax

I like how you mentioned, that this is not a competition because we are all uniquely different and should not compare ourselves to each other. I believe everyone in this group was grateful for their experience in the group and for the positive space to open up and grow from. I like how you ended the group by having one member express her feelings for everyone in the group and how others agreed with her comments. Overall, this was an outstanding group experience and I am glad I was able to observe and pick up on some of the techniques that you used within this

I felt that this third group meeting was another positive experience for me because I felt that the group was connecting more now. I let myself speak up again and continued to help support my fellow group members’ overall by listening and giving them some advice/insight. I feel like our group is deepening and it is sad that it is almost over, but I am happy that we all know each other a lot better now. Again, coming into this session, I had mixed emotions I was happy, but also was somewhat anxious before class. After the session begins I feel that lifting and I become more focused in the here and now experience.

As the leader of the group leader, I would have to be extremely careful when working with transference and counter transference. I would not get defensive if I noticed the member of the group being negative towards me in the open, and I would utilize my self-reflection techniques to question myself about what is going on in the group in efforts to not put what is happening in the group on the group, but to search within myself for answers. I would also speak with one of my mentors about what is taking place within the group.

When done, all of us in the group began to exchange our responses and our reactions to them. While there are some differences between us, most of us are pretty similar in how we approach the conversation during the group exercises. Maybe we were expecting to find a trait that sticks out uniquely from our list that define our roles. It was both surprising and disappointing on how similar we are as a group.

My feelings about the group process was a little mix at first but, at the end I felt like we actually brought it together. Beginning of the group member were all over the place and had no direction, when we were able to take a breather in just think ideas started to flow. I felt like that took the communicator to make it happen. By reinsuring the other group members that everything will go smoothly if we just don’t overthink everything.