Describe the skills and characteristics of an effective group leader. What is the group leader responsible for?
What will be an ideal response?
Most effective style of leadership is one where the leader shows care and concern about the group members while maintaining structure within the group. A group leader should have the factors known to enhance any therapy process such as empathy, active listening, and ability to establish a strong therapeutic alliance. The group leader must also have a stance of concern, acceptance, genuineness, and empathy toward group members. Behaviors that would elicit resistance from members such as blaming, criticizing, labeling, shaming, and confrontation should be avoided. Effective group leaders have self-awareness and engage in self-monitoring as well as be multiculturally competent. The leader is responsible for creating and maintaining the group, building a group culture, and activating and illuminating the here and now.
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Amy is researching the effectiveness of journaling on self-rated depression. All her participants begin with a self-rated depression score of “moderate” based on a standardized test of depression. Amy randomly assigns half of the group to journal for 30 min each day, while the other half acts as a control group. What type of experiment is this?
A. a true experiment B. a quasi-experimental design C. a controlled experiment D. a field experiment
“Self-realization” as a personal characteristic of an effective counselor means
a. the understanding that all humans have problems. b. the awareness that one is unable to fulfil his or her potential. c. the action of actualizing one’s potential. d. the counselor’s ability to disclose meaningful aspect of his or her life.
Define the term archive.
What will be an ideal response?
Which of the following treatment systems is based on the idea that small changes can lead to larger changes that have a "ripple" effect?
(a) reality therapy (b) rational emotive behavior therapy (c) Gestalt therapy (d) brief solution-focused therapy