A presentation at Heritage @ CBC Week 11 in in Pasco, WA 99301, USA by Jacob Campbell
Time: Wednesday’s from 5:30-8:15
Date: 03/24/21
Content: Group Work Approaches Related to Setting I
Reading Assignment: Garvin et al. (2017) Chapters 13-16
Due Dates:
The reading discussed three different settings that group work can be done in. These are:
Getzel (2012) describes four variables that should be considered in who should be placed in groups in a health care setting and intervened in during the group cycle.
Many groups that are led are working with clients who are in some way being forced to attend (courts, parents, probation, school, etc.)
Some interventions that are frequently employed are:
—> Doing these in a minute
Brehm (1972) talked about Reactance (well and had been writing about it since the sixties).
Creates Reactance
Because motivational interviewing is so key in working with involuntary groups, I want to talk about the stages of change with you.
Motivational Interviewing looks at change in stages.
MI is more than the use of a set of technical interventions. It is characterized by a particular “spirit” or clinical “way of being” which is the context or interpersonal relationship within which the techniques are employed.
The spirit of MI is based on three key elements:
The book discusses how to deal with discrepancy. Developing discrepancy is one of the four guiding principles in Motivational Interviewing. Building on and bringing to life the elements of the MI “style,” there are four distinct principles that guide the practice of MI. The therapist employing MI will hold true to these principles throughout treatment.
Expressing empathy involves seeing the world through the client’s eyes, thinking about things as the client thinks about them, feeling things as the client feels them, and sharing in the client’s experiences
Supporting self-efficacy in motivational interviewing is the counselor focusing on previous successes and highlighting skills and strengths.
Rolling with resistance disrupts any “struggle” that may occur and the session does not resemble an argument or the client’s playing “devil’s advocate” or “yes, but” to the counselor’s suggestions.
Developing discrepancy guiding client to understand the mismatch between where the client wants to be and where they are.
While ART’s moral reasoning day is different than a truly sophistry method discussed as a method for examining faculty beliefs, it fits in very well with working with involuntary clients.
[Whole Class Activity] 10 volunteers (participants) 1 volunteer co-facilitator others observers. Facilitate moral reasoning day as listed below. Students do not need to necessarily take on a part, but answer honestly or they can act as a persona.
The following are some techniques that are frequently used with involuntary clients.
Week 11 moves into a three-part series of looking at groups that we complete focused on different populations. The first week has readings from Ruffolo and Maker (2017) where they dive into group work focused on mental health. As we know many of the groups that social workers end up facilitating include participants that are involuntary. Rooney and Chovanec (2017) offer many suggestions on how to be successful with this population. Finally, Malekoff (2017) talks about strength-based practices with youth, and Rittner (2017) looks specifically at child welfare. During class, we will be talking about bits and pieces of doing group work with each of these populations. We will also be doing a participatory activity out of Aggression Replacement Training.
Reference
Malekoff, A. (2017). Chapter 15 - Strengths-based group work with children and adolescents. In C. D. Garvin, L. M. Gutierrez, & M. J. Galinsky Handbook of Social Work with Groups (pp. 255-270). The Guilford Press.
Rittner, B. (2017). Chapter 16 - Group work in child welfare. In C. D. Garvin, L. M. Gutierrez, & M. J. Galinsky Handbook of Social Work with Groups (pp. 271-286). The Guilford Press.
Rooney, R., & Chovanec, M. (2017). Chapter 14 - Involuntary groups. In C. D. Garvin, L. M. Gutierrez, & M. J. Galinsky Handbook of Social Work with Groups (pp. 237-254). The Guilford Press.
Ruffolo, M. C., & Maker, C. M. (2017). Chapter 13 - Evidence-based group work in mental health practice. In C. D. Garvin, L. M. Gutierrez, & M. J. Galinsky Handbook of Social Work with Groups (pp. 220-236). The Guilford Press.