Group a counseling specialty 7e pearson by t gladding chapter 11

 Group Work with Children  Types of Groups for Children  Setting up Groups for Children  Role of Leaders in Children’s Groups  Strengths and Limitations of Children’s Groups... Grou

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Chapter 11

Groups for Children

Prepared by: Nathaniel N Ivers, Wake Forest

University

 Group Work with Children

 Types of Groups for Children

 Setting up Groups for Children

 Role of Leaders in Children’s Groups

 Strengths and Limitations of Children’s Groups

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Samuel Gladding

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Group Work with Children

 Children may benefit from groups as much if not more than other age groups

 Group work with children (children under age 14) requires a special knowledge of child development and group theory

Types of Groups for Children

 Group Guidance for Elementary/Middle School Children

 Group Counseling Within the Schools

 Group Guidance and Counseling in Community Settings

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Group Guidance

Common topics:

Prevention and wellness (Villalba, 2007)

Subject areas, such as personal or mental health or cooperation with peers

Career development or self-exploration

May revolve around activities, and may be called activity group guidance (Hillman & Reunion, 1978)

Group Counseling Within the

Schools Provides the following:

 A structure for students to give and receive feedback from each other

 A place for students to practice new skills

in a safe place

 An opportunity for students to

communicate thoughts and feelings with one another and share common

experiences (Falco & Bauman, 2014)

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Group Counseling Within the

Schools Usually takes one of three approaches in dealing with persons and problems:

 Crisis-Centered

 Problem-Centered

 Growth-Centered

Groups in Community Settings

 Do not differ substantially from groups conducted within schools

 Community groups are usually more homogenous than groups within schools

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Setting Up Groups for Children

 Questions to answer before the group begins:

 What medium will be most used in group communication?

 What structure will be employed?

 What materials will be used in the group?

 How will group members be recruited and screened?

 How long will group sessions meet?

 How many children will be in the group?

 What will the gender mix be?

Role of the Leader in Children’s Groups Teaching Facilitator (Guidance groups)

 Leaders of children’s guidance and psychoeducational groups influence what happens by the way they arrange the chairs (Myrick, 2011)

 Row formation

 Circle arrangement

 Semicircle arrangement

 Fishbowl

 Discussion teams

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Strengths of Group Guidance

 Allows counselors/group leaders to see a large number of students in a brief amount of time

 Allows counselors/group leaders to use inside (teachers) and outside

(community personnel) resources to help children learn to help themselves

 Promotes security, comfort, peer interaction, and problem-solving

(Myrick, 2011)

Limitations of Group Guidance

 May be too impersonal at times

 May prohibit general discussion or exploration of certain subjects

 May stereotype the counselor as a presenter of knowledge and inhibit

counselor spontaneity

(Myrick, 2011)

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Strengths of Group Counseling

 More efficient than individual counseling

 More realistic than individual counseling

 Allows group members to share with one another and learn through peer modeling and feedback

 Promotes support, acceptance, relaxation, risk-taking, and resources for involved members

 May free counselor to make strategic intervention with members of the group

(Myrick, 2011)

Weakness of Group Counseling

 Takes more time to develop trust and closeness

 More difficult to safeguard confidentiality

 More difficult to include all members actively in group discussions and activities

 More difficult to organize group counseling

activities

 Requires leaders and members to be sensitive

to topics that are inappropriate for the group

 Requires group members to be aware of and