GROUP PROCESS AND GROUP INTERVENTION - Five types of groups for use in OT

create interpersonal awareness - proposed that interpersonal, intrapsychic, and environmental factors influence affect, learning, and behavior - purpose of OT task groups was to facilitate self-exploration in the here-and-now using activities to help clients identify stress, conflicts, and problems so that they could learn and change by developing more adaptive behaviors

Task group model

an activity or process designed to produce an end product or a service for the group members or other people

Group model

evaluate service users and develop social interaction skills

Developmental group

Five types of groups for use in OT:

lowest in the hierarchy - service users were placed in this type of group if they were able to function in the presence of other people, even if they were not able to share roles

Parallel group

Five types of groups for use in OT:

Second-lowest in the hierarchy - shared short-term task - expected to be able to share and participate in competitive tasks

Project group

Five types of groups for use in OT:

tasks were relatively long-term - focused on self-interest, but realized that meeting their needs was predicated on other group members’ needs being met - self-interest was therefore enlightened

Ego centrio cooperative group

Five types of groups for use in OT:

purpose was mutual need satisfaction for members - members were homogeneous and had shared views and feelings - satisfaction of group members’ needs took precedence over task accomplishment

Cooperative group

Five types of groups for use in OT:

top of the hierarchy - members with heterogeneous characteristics, views, values, and needs

Mature group

continuous change in both the group as an entity and individual members as agents within that entity - interactive dynamics that cause mutual change among group members

Group process

the change (or therapeutic) agents in groups - members share their experiences, which lightens the burden because of a sense of shared problems - get satisfaction from the sense that they are of some help to others

Interpersonal process

denotes dynamism

Process

characteristic of the group process - to facilitate the group process appropriately to harness its therapeutic power, it is important to understand its dynamics

Group dynamics

an open, complex, dynamical adaptive system - consisting of multiple agents dynamically interacting among themselves as the entire group interacts with its environment as well

Group