Group Process and Practice ACTUAL
Questions and CORRECT Answers
Task Group - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Task groups are common in communities, business,
and educational settings. Focus is on the application of group dynamics principles and
processes to improve practice and foster accomplishment of identified work goals. Get down
to business quickly. Warm up, action, and closure are important. Role of Leader is to assist
participants in understanding how attention to interpersonal climate directly relates to
achieving purpose/goals of group.
Psychoeducational Group - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Structured Groups. Group members
who have deficit in certain areas such as parenting or assertiveness skills. Ex: Substance
Abuse Prevention Groups. Development of Cognitive, affective, and behavioral skills.
Leaders task is are to provide instruction and create positive climate that fosters learning.
Counseling Group - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Deals with Conscious Problems. Resolution
of specific short-term issues. Interpersonal process and problem-solving strategies that stress
conscious thoughts, feelings and behavior. Structure activities of group to maintain climate
favorable to productive work, facilitate members interaction, provide information for
members to see alternatives to their modes of behavior to encourage to translate insights into
concrete action.
Psychotherapy Group - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔To alleviate specific symptoms or
psychological problems. i.e, depression, sexual difficulties, eating disorders, anxiety or
psychosomatic disorders. Leader creates climate that fosters understanding and exploration of
a problem area. Includes dreams.
Therapeutic Factors - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔The dynamics within a group that play key
role in producing constructive changes
Catharsis - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Therapeutic factor that involves expression of feelings
that have been denied expression; Feelings can be released verbally/physically
Final Stage - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Time in a group for members to consolidate
learning and develop ways for transferring learning to daily living
, Unfinished Business - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Encourage members to express and work
through personal concerns/reactions to others prior to final meeting of group
Contracts - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Final Stage of Group that outlines specific steps
members agree to take that increases chances of successfully meeting their goals when group
ends.
Postgroup Meetings - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Follow-up sessions scheduled sometime
after termination of groups as a evaluative approach/measure of accountability
Define and give a brief example of the skill of linking. - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Linking
is a technique aimed at promoting member-to-member interaction and facilitating exploration
of common themes in a group.EX: Katherine describes feelings that she might not be loved
because she is less than perfect, Pamela may have similar feelings so leader would ask the
two ladies to talk with each other in group about their fears.
At times group leaders must block certain behaviors of group members. Give some examples
of behaviors you would be inclined to block. - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Ex: Probing,
gossiping, invading another's privacy, breaking confidences, questioning.
Why is it essential that a group leader be able both to confront and to support? - CORRECT
ANSWER- ✔✔Because confronting is both caring and a skill, however if/when group
member's behavior is disruptive of group functioning or when discrepancies between verbal
messages/nonverbal messages are displayed. It challenges both individual members and
groups as a whole. If the group seems to be low in energy and characterized by superficial
discussions, and to change what's happening in group. Supportive behavior can be therapeutic
or counterproductive. Support is appropriate when people are facing a crisis, venturing into
frightening territory, attempting constructive changes, struggling to rid themselves of old
patterns by the leaders presence so the clients feel they're not alone.
Group leaders must learn when and how to terminate their work with both individuals and
groups. What criteria would you consider in determining when an individual is ready to
terminate from a group? - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Contracts at the end of each session to
create a climate to encourage individual to do work between sessions. Help build skills they
will need when they have to go back to their everyday lives.
Questions and CORRECT Answers
Task Group - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Task groups are common in communities, business,
and educational settings. Focus is on the application of group dynamics principles and
processes to improve practice and foster accomplishment of identified work goals. Get down
to business quickly. Warm up, action, and closure are important. Role of Leader is to assist
participants in understanding how attention to interpersonal climate directly relates to
achieving purpose/goals of group.
Psychoeducational Group - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Structured Groups. Group members
who have deficit in certain areas such as parenting or assertiveness skills. Ex: Substance
Abuse Prevention Groups. Development of Cognitive, affective, and behavioral skills.
Leaders task is are to provide instruction and create positive climate that fosters learning.
Counseling Group - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Deals with Conscious Problems. Resolution
of specific short-term issues. Interpersonal process and problem-solving strategies that stress
conscious thoughts, feelings and behavior. Structure activities of group to maintain climate
favorable to productive work, facilitate members interaction, provide information for
members to see alternatives to their modes of behavior to encourage to translate insights into
concrete action.
Psychotherapy Group - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔To alleviate specific symptoms or
psychological problems. i.e, depression, sexual difficulties, eating disorders, anxiety or
psychosomatic disorders. Leader creates climate that fosters understanding and exploration of
a problem area. Includes dreams.
Therapeutic Factors - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔The dynamics within a group that play key
role in producing constructive changes
Catharsis - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Therapeutic factor that involves expression of feelings
that have been denied expression; Feelings can be released verbally/physically
Final Stage - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Time in a group for members to consolidate
learning and develop ways for transferring learning to daily living
, Unfinished Business - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Encourage members to express and work
through personal concerns/reactions to others prior to final meeting of group
Contracts - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Final Stage of Group that outlines specific steps
members agree to take that increases chances of successfully meeting their goals when group
ends.
Postgroup Meetings - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Follow-up sessions scheduled sometime
after termination of groups as a evaluative approach/measure of accountability
Define and give a brief example of the skill of linking. - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Linking
is a technique aimed at promoting member-to-member interaction and facilitating exploration
of common themes in a group.EX: Katherine describes feelings that she might not be loved
because she is less than perfect, Pamela may have similar feelings so leader would ask the
two ladies to talk with each other in group about their fears.
At times group leaders must block certain behaviors of group members. Give some examples
of behaviors you would be inclined to block. - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Ex: Probing,
gossiping, invading another's privacy, breaking confidences, questioning.
Why is it essential that a group leader be able both to confront and to support? - CORRECT
ANSWER- ✔✔Because confronting is both caring and a skill, however if/when group
member's behavior is disruptive of group functioning or when discrepancies between verbal
messages/nonverbal messages are displayed. It challenges both individual members and
groups as a whole. If the group seems to be low in energy and characterized by superficial
discussions, and to change what's happening in group. Supportive behavior can be therapeutic
or counterproductive. Support is appropriate when people are facing a crisis, venturing into
frightening territory, attempting constructive changes, struggling to rid themselves of old
patterns by the leaders presence so the clients feel they're not alone.
Group leaders must learn when and how to terminate their work with both individuals and
groups. What criteria would you consider in determining when an individual is ready to
terminate from a group? - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Contracts at the end of each session to
create a climate to encourage individual to do work between sessions. Help build skills they
will need when they have to go back to their everyday lives.
