TYPE OF GROUP COUNSELING

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TYPE OF GROUP COUNSELING

GUIDANCE

GROUP

T-GROUPSENSITIVITY

GROUP

COUNSELING GROUP

THERAPHY GROUP

GUIDANCE/PSYCHOEDUCATIONAL

GROUP

Aim ; To spread information

Topic : Chosen by the counsellor.

Approach : preventive approach. Give information of prevention such as AIDS, time management, study skill.

Learn information about a particular topic or issue and might also help group members cope with that same issue (e.g. support group for a suicide, transition group to prepare students to enter high school etc.)

COUNSELING GROUP Aim: Focus on individual problem. Each

member has a chance to be heard including the facilitator.

Topic : No specific topic. Things they feel comfortable to talk in public.

Approach: Therapy format

Number of members: 5- 10 members

Counsellor’s role : To create conducive condition without any depressed or threatened condition.

THERAPHY GROUP Aim : to obtain relief from particular symptoms

or to pursue personal change.

Topic : No specific topic

Approach: Clients are helped by listeningto others discuss their problems (including

problems more severe than theirs) and by

realizing that they are not alone.

Groups give the individual client the chance to model positive behavior they observe in others.

Number of members: Six to twelve clients

who meet at least once a week.

Therapist's role : facilitating member

participation and interaction, focusing

conversation, mediating conflicts among

members, offering emotional support

when needed facilitating

T- GROUP

Definition : a group of people under the

leadership of a trainer who seek to

develop self- awareness and sensitivity to

others by verbalizing feeling uninhibitedly

at group session. ( Merriam Webster

Online)

Number of member: 8-20 members meets

several times

Aim : Work on reducing defensiveness and achieving a maximum of openness and honesty.

Climate of trust develops among the group members, and they increasingly abandon the defences habitually used in dealing with other people.

increased self-awareness resulting from sensitivity training is presumed to change a person's behavior in daily life,

Their training experiences actually effect

long-lasting behavioral changes

REFERENCES

Friedman, William H. Practical Group Therapy: A

Guide for Clinicians. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass,

1989.

Brammer, L, & Shostrom, E. (1982). Therapeutic

psychology: Fubdamental of counseling and

psychotherapy (4th ed.) Englwood Cliffs, N,J. :

Prentice Hall.