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- Group counseling offers real promise in meeting today's challenges. Group counseling enables
practitioners to work with more clients and the group process also has unique learning advantages for members of the group.
Groups can be used for therapeutic or educational purposes or a combinatin of the two.
- In the human service field you will be expected to be prepared to use group approaches with a variety of clients for a
variety of purposes.
- Group approach can help people meet almost any need.
- The group counselor uses verbal and nonverbal techniques as well as structured exercises
- Advantages of group therapy; their are numerous advantages for helping people make changes in their attitudes, beliefs,
about themselves and others, feelings and behaviors. Members can recieve feedback on how they are being precieved in the group.
Group offers understanding and support which foster the members willingness to explore problems they have brought with them
to the group.
- Group conseling can be designed to meet the needs of specific populations such as children, adolescents, college students
or the elderly.
- You can expect five stages to group therapy.
- Formation of the group.
- Initial stage
- Transition stage
- Working stage
- Final stage
- The key to success as a group leader is the commitment to the never ending struggle to become more effective as a human
being.
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