2. TYPE OF GROUP COUNSELING
GUIDANCE
GROUP
T-GROUP
SENSITIVITY
GROUP
COUNSELING GROUP
THERAPHY GROUP
3. 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.)
4. 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.
5. THERAPHY GROUP
Aim : to obtain relief from particular symptoms
or to pursue personal change.
Topic : No specific topic
Approach: Clients are helped by listening
to 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.
6. 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
7. 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
8. 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,
9. Their training experiences actually effect
long-lasting behavioral changes
10. 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.
