Your textbook introduced the concept that group counseling can produce negative as well as positive results for clients and that the potency of group counseling can produce causalities. Describe what the term causality means in this context. Then discuss
what client variables can lead to group counseling causalities.
What will be an ideal response?
As discussed thus far, group counseling offers the professional counselor a powerful tool to apply to many mental and physical health issues. But any potent therapeutic tool also contains the potential to harm clients (Hadley & Strupp, 1976). Therefore, the potency of group counseling can produce casualties. By "casualty," is meant a client whose lasting deterioration of psychological functioning is directly attributable to a counseling intervention (Crown, 1983). Client variables can also lead to group counseling causalities. Smokowski, Rose, and Bacallao (2001) found in their study that: “Individuals who became group casualties were (a) particularly vulnerable or sensitive due to their “pileup” of life course problems, and (b) lacking in supportive social relationships inside and outside of the group” (pp. 247-248).
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All of the following group topics are appropriate at the High School level except ________
a. at-risk issues b. body image c. career concerns d. eating disorders
The overall goal of the helping clients become more effective in problemmanagement and opportunity-development means helping clients become more effective ________ in both the helping process and their daily lives
a. None of these choices. b. reactors c. agents d. fixers
Most feelings words are variations of the basic feelings quadrad: _____________, _____________, _____________, _____________.
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
Which of the following is true of single-subject experimental designs?
a. Different treatment phases need to be included in them to demonstrate change due to the independent variable. b. These designs are cross-sectional in natureand involve collection of data at a single point of time. c. They involve collection of single data points before and after interventions. d. They produce findings which can be easily generalized to other individuals and situations.