Reference no: EM132541669 , Length: 3 pages

Group Facilitation: Group Dynamics and Progress

Assignment Overview
This assignment addresses Outpatients - Part 2 of the video, Understanding Group Psychotherapy Series, which you watched in this unit's studies.

By successfully completing this assignment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following competencies and behaviors:

Competency 1: Demonstrate Ethical and Professional Behavior.
C1.GP.E: Use supervision and consultation to guide professional judgment and behavior.
Related Assignment Criterion:
3. Identify how a facilitator integrates feedback through consultation.
Competency 7: Assess Individuals, Families, Groups, Organizations, and Communities.
C7.GP.A: Collect and organize data, and apply critical thinking to interpret information from clients and constituencies.
Related Assignment Criterion:
2. Describe a facilitator's group management skills.
Competency 4: Engage in Practice-informed Research and Research-informed Practice.
C4.GP.C: Use and translate research evidence to inform and improve practice, policy, and service delivery.
Related Assignment Criterion:
5. Discuss the application of best practices or evidence-based techniques of group facilitation.
Competency 6: Engage with Individuals, Families, Groups, Organizations, and Communities.
C6.GP.A: Apply knowledge of human behavior and the social environment, person-in-environment, and other multidisciplinary theoretical frameworks to engage with clients and constituencies.
Related Assignment Criterion:
2. Describe a facilitator's group management skills.
Competency 7: Assess Individuals, Families, Groups, Organizations, and Communities.
C7.GP.B: Apply knowledge of human behavior and the social environment, person-in-environment, and other multidisciplinary theoretical frameworks in the analysis of assessment data from clients and constituencies.
Related Assignment Criterion:
2. Describe a facilitator's group management skills.
Competency 8: Intervene with Individuals, Families, Groups, Organizations, and Communities.
C8.GP.B: Apply knowledge of human behavior and the social environment, person-in-environment, and other multidisciplinary theoretical frameworks in interventions with clients and constituencies.
Related Assignment Criterion:
2. Describe a facilitator's group management skills.
Competency 9: Evaluate Practice with Individuals, Families, Groups, Organizations, and Communities.
C9.GP.B:Apply knowledge of human behavior and the social environment, person-in-environment, and other multidisciplinary theoretical frameworks in the evaluation of outcomes.
Related Assignment Criterion:
2. Describe a facilitator's group management skills.
Competency 7: Assess Individuals, Families, Groups, Organizations, and Communities.
C7.GP.C: Develop mutually agreed-on intervention goals and objectives based on the critical assessment of strengths, needs, and challenges within clients and constituencies.
Related Assignment Criterion:
2. Describe a facilitator's group management skills.
Competency 8: Intervene with Individuals, Families, Groups, Organizations, and Communities.
C8.GP.E: Facilitate effective transitions and endings that advance mutually agreed-on goals.
Related Assignment Criterion:
2. Describe a facilitator's group management skills.
Assignment Description
For this assignment, you will focus on group dynamics and group progress.

Assignment Instructions
Follow these parameters to complete the assignment:

Short summary of the sessions.
Part 3: Group Dynamics.
Description of all four observation parameters, noting specific strengths and suggestions for improvement:
Facilitator ability to recognize group members' verbal and non-verbal messages.
Facilitator ability to interpret group members' meaning and motivation.
Facilitator ability to manage group members' participation.
Facilitator recognition of the cultural roots of expected or accepted forms of communication in the group.
Part 4: Group Progress.
Description of all three observation parameters, noting specific strengths and suggestions for improvement:
Facilitator ability to manage sensitive self-disclosure to the group.
Facilitator management of issues of vertical versus horizontal disclosure.
Facilitator management of content versus process.
Conclusion.
Explanation of overall facilitator strengths and suggestions.
Assessment of overall group progress from Part 1 to Part 4.
A good supervisor should be able to back up their observations and suggestions with a body of evidence; as such, you should support your analyses with citations from both peer-reviewed literature and your textbook.

Attachment:- Group Dynamics and Progress.rar