Ch. 7 Groups: Process & Practice

Characteristics of the transition stage are:

1. Establishing Trust

2. Defensiveness & Reluctant Behaviors

3. Common Fears & Anxieties of Members (also addressed in detail in ch. 6)

4. Struggles with Control

5. Conflict

6. Confrontation

7. Challenges to the Group Leader

8. Leader's Reactions to Defensive Behavior

What confrontation is NOT:

1. Tearing others down.

2. Hitting others with negative feedback and then retreating.

3. Being hostile with aim of hurting others.

4. Telling others what is basically wrong with them.

5. Assaulting other's integrity.

Problem Behaviors & Difficult Group Members

1. Silence & lack of participation.

2. Monopolistic behavior.

3. Storytelling

4. Questioning

5. Giving advice

6. Dependency

7. Offering pseudosupport

8. Hostile behavior

9. Acting superior

10. Socializing

11. Intellectualizing

12. Becoming "assistant leaders"

What is monopolistic behavior?

When a member often claims to identify with others but takes others' statements as openings for detailed stories about his or her own life.

There are three areas leaders deal with in the transition stage of group. They are:

1. Dealing with defensive behavior therapeutically.

2. Dealing with avoidance by the whole group.

3. Dealing with transference and countertransference.

Transference

Consists of the feelings clients project onto the counselor.

Countertransference

When counselors project their own resolved conflicts onto the client.

What are some coleader issues that occur during the transition stage?

1. Negative reactions toward one leader.

2. Challenges to both leaders.

3. Dealing with problem behaviors.

4. Dealing with countertransference.