Name at least two things that group counseling or group therapy provides for adolescents
What will be an ideal response?
Groups challenge the myth of uniqueness by emphasizing shared emotions and experiences. Many adolescents think that no one else feels the way they do or has had the same experiences. Often in group, they are surprised by how similar they feel (universality) and/or how someone else has survived something even worse (instillation of hope).
Groups provide adult leadership that adolescents want but with avenues to assert power and independence. Adolescents want to learn how to interact with adults but learn best from vicarious learning, instruction, and practice.
Groups reduce the discomfort of adult-child dynamics that occur in individual counseling, particularly with adolescents with bad experiences with adults.
Groups confront adolescent self-absorption because members need to take turns talking and helping each other. Groups help develop empathy; and help teens notice that the world does not revolve around them. They can also receive help from others, and most importantly that they help others and how good it feels to do so (altruism).
Groups may be the first place that an adolescent truly experiences peer acceptance, especially for those with limited social skills or those who appear different.
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a. youth. b. emerging adulthood. c. early adulthood. d. young adulthood.
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A. Multicultural ethical commitment B. Multicultural ethical awareness C. Goodness of fit ethics D. Multicultural ethical decision-making
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a. a model for stress management therapy. b. a framework for integrating many different types of theories. c. a useful way to make decisions. d. all of these.
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a. Most children with Down syndrome show impairments in the first year of life. b. Most children with Down syndrome have trouble with articulating speech. c. Most children with Down syndrome show severely impaired visual–spatial reasoning. d. Children with Down syndrome are more likely to develop psychiatric disorders than other children with intellectual disabilities are.