2. • No leader should lead counseling groups
without in-depth knowledge of
counseling theories.
• REBT and TA theories are examples of
very valuable theories in understanding
human behavior and can be learned
rather quickly by members regardless of
their age.
• Very often in therapy groups, the focus is
held on one member for 10 to 2 minutes
(sometimes longer)
• The leader should have theoretical
knowledge and skills to take session
deep enough so that the members are
very much involved even though they
may just be watching.
3. Rational Emotive Behavior
Theory
• it is a comprehensive approach to
helping people change
dysfunctional emotions and
behaviors by showing them how
to become aware of and modify
the beliefs and attitudes that
create these unwanted states.
• A- Activating Event leads to
C- Emotional Consequence.
4.
5. Analysis
Transactional • The ultimate concept of TA is that people
have a freedom of choice related to how they
react emotionally, that they have the freedom
to change at will, and that they have the
freedom to change responses to recurring
and new stimuli.
• The goal is to stay in the Adult state. As a
manager, look for crossed patterns, Not OK
child behavior, and individuals who reside in
only one state.
6. Techniques for Conducting Therapy in
Groups
• Techniques in engaging members-
the leader usually do this to keep
members interested and involve
themselves in an active way.
7. Members ask questions
• Once a member has talked for a few
minutes about the specific concern the
leader can use the technique of having
members ask the working members a
question.
8. Members guess what the problem is
• Another way to involve members and
cause the working member to stop and
think is to have the members guess what
the problem is. The leader would use this
technique when member is being vague or
confused.
9. Benefits to having members ask questions or
guess the specific concern might be.
• It gets the members involved and
prevents them from being bored or
disinterested.
• It breaks up the member’s story
telling (many times, members will
ramble without really concentrating
on what the specific problem might
be).
• It causes the member to think about
what she is saying.
• Good questions maybe asked.
10. • The working member gets to hear
how he might be feeling. This is
especially true of some members
are very good at pinpointing what
the working member is feeling.
• The working member gets to feel
understood if the other members are
on target.
• While the members ask questions or
make statements, the leader has
time to think about the direction he
believes the therapy needs to go.
11. Members role play the working member
• A technique that is effective and also
causes the members to be involved is to
have the members role play the working
member. By role playing the working
member, we mean that another member
acts as the working member.
12. Creative use of members
• Creative ways that leader utilizes the
members to make counseling more
concrete and impactful. The following
techniques are for specific kinds of
problems and would be used only if the
timing was right and the activity fit the
problem being presented.
13. • Members are asked to stand in front of the
working member, who sits on the floor and
looks up at the standing members.
• Members can play various ego states of
working member.
• Members are asked to talk about the
working members in a kind and caring way
while the members listen.
• The leader may have the group stand in a
circle with option of asking or “fighting” to
break into the circle if members don’t feel
part of the group and the leader senses that
a member would like to but is not trying very
hard.
14. • An experimental technique could also b
used with a member who feels held
down by all of his obligations and
responsibilities.
• Use of drama to act out a scene that the
member is worried about, such as job
interview or a conversation with her
parents.
• Psychodrama can also be used to
explore in action not only historical
events, but more importantly,
dimensions of psychological events.
• Members are asked to pull on the
working member’s arm to symbolize
feelings of being pulled in two directions.
